Germany, Luftwaffe. A Silver & Glass Box Given To Flight Instructor Ludwig Weber By His Graduating Student Hermann Göring In 1915 Auction The medal is a disc

The medal is a disc of gilt and enamel

marked OLC

54 mm (w) x 54

paratroops of the 7th Flieger-Division (Generalleutnant Kurt Student) and air landing troops of the 22nd Air Landing Infantry Division (Generalleutnant Hans Graf von Sponeck) seized strategic bridges and airfields in the vicinity of Rotterdam and The Hague

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Silver & Glass Box Given To Flight Instructor Ludwig Weber By His Graduating Student Hermann Göring In 1915 Auction The medal is a discWhile Hermann Gring may be more synonymous with the events of the Second World War as well as his prominent political position in the Third Reich, his rise within the German military began many years earlier as a distinguished fighter pilot in the newly formed Luftstreitkrfte. Having been inspired by friend and pilot Bruno Loerzer, Gring enthusiastically applied for a transfer to the Imperial German Army Air Service. Despite this application being