Bavaria, Kingdom. A Pilot’s Badge, By Carl Poellath Archive A 1935 Hitler Youth/Hitlerjugend (HJ)

A 1935 Hitler Youth/Hitlerjugend (HJ) Deutsches Jugendfest badge

While convalescing at Bear Wood

"for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action against the enemy while serving with the 6th Armored Division during World War II"

the blacker appears fire damaged/molten

Bavaria, Kingdom. A Pilot’s Badge, By Carl Poellath Archive A 1935 Hitler Youth/Hitlerjugend (HJ)(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen). Constructed of silver, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Bavarian royal crown, around a central depiction of a monoplane flying over a rural landscape, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a round wire cach, maker marked KARL POELLATH, SCHROBENHAUSEN (reflective of the early alternative spelling of the firm