Luftwaffe - Fighter Clasps

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Ed LaFever Collection
7/21/2001
Short Range Day Fighter's Clasp in Bronze, awarded for 20 operational flight's into enemy airspace.
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78 mm
42 mm

C. E. Junker
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A. L. Collection
12/28/2001
Day Fighter's 500 mission Clasp
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76.7mm
25.4mm
17.2 grams
G.H. Osang, Dresden
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10/23/2002
Day Fighter Pilot Bronze Operational Flying Clasp
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Willi Schumacher Collection
11/3/2004
Day Fighter Pilot Gold Operational Flying Clasp
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Richard Fleming Collection
8/23/2010
Day Fighter Pilot Silver Operational Flying Clasp
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Richard Fleming Collection
8/23/2010
Day Fighter Pilot Bronze Operational Flying Clasp
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3" (75 mm)
1 3/8" (35 mm)
18 grams
"1" stamped on pin indicates maker as Deschler & Sohn (Munchen)
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Ed Read Collection
1/24/2021
Long Range Fighter Clasp - The reverse is inscribed "Oblt Wolf Ettel." Ettel was a fighter pilot ace who entered the Luftwaffe in 1939. He flew over 250 missions in Russian & the Mediterranean & scored 124 kills. He was killed in 1943 over Sicily. I have no provenance that this was actually his clasp.
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