German Air Force 1933-45

In the VIII year of the National Socialist Revolution, for the girl Elke Kühe born in 1936 from Neubrandenburg, 1000.-- RM were deposited on December 24, 1940, embossed eagle as Reichsmarschall, inscribed with the name. Complete in large blue presentation case, with gold-printed Luftwaffe eagle on the lid, inside the lid with large Iron Cross 1939. Condition 2+.

Flight Log Book No. 1; training began on 06.06.1937,
A Glider Pilot - examination passed on 18.06.1938,
B Glider Pilot - examination passed on 06.09.1942,
C Sailplane Pilot - examination passed on 16.10.1942,
Aviation License for Glider Pilot acquired on 1.12.1942. Issued on 13.10.1943, stamp “NS-Fliegerkorps Gruppe I, Ostpreußen”, the pages are attached with adhesive tape.
Flight Log Book No. 2; started on 06.06.1937, ended 18.06.1942. With training entries as in Flight Log Book No. 1. Official stamp of Pilot Training School A/B 119, Flight Command Helmstedt.

Aviation License No. 4803, with uniform photograph, stamp Luftamt Berlin, issued on 14 January 1944.

Workshop Service Book No. 6, started on 7 January 1939, by NSFK Gruppe 3, Sturm 11/16 Dithmarschen.

Handwritten note with his military career, including assignments with K.G 4 and K.G 27.
4 photographs from wartime and 1 postwar print

Postal savings book and 2 postwar identification documents.

Soldbuch issued on 2.10.1939 by the 2./Flg.-Ausb.-Rgt.11, with photograph, noted on front "Spezial Personal - Waffenpersonal (Bordw.)", further units: 1./Waffenmeisterschule der Luftwaffe Merseburg, Res.Flugh.Betr.Komp.1/XII, 17./Flugh.Betr.Kp.z.b.V., 2./F.B.K./T.G.1, 8.Staffel/II./Transportgeschwader 1, 2./Flg.-Waffentechn.-Schule 2, 2./Flieg.-T.G.(W) 8, Personalleitstelle XIV.Fl.Korps, 8./Schlachtgeschwader 1, 10.(Pz.)/S.G.1, and from 3.5.1945 in prisoner of war captivity; Decorations: Cuff title "Afrika", Italian medal "R.Governo d'Albania", the German-Italian commemorative medal Africa was subsequently deleted.
Award certificate for the Italian medal "R.Governo d'Albania", issued in Rome on 24.8.1943. Included is a transcript and a transmittal letter from the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Rome dated 4.9.1961.
Award certificate for the War Merit Cross 2nd Class with Swords, as NCO of the 2.(Pz.)/S.G.9, issued on 20.4.1945 by Generalmajor Robert Fuchs - Commander of the 1. Fliegerdivision (Knight's Cross on 6.4.1940).
Replacement Soldbuch issued on 1.5.1946 by the D.A.Z.L. II/25, without photograph, with pay entries through July 1947; Employment book from 1936; Identity card with photograph dated 10.3.1939; several post-war papers from the Association of Former Members of the Deutsches Afrikakorps.
The documents are mostly in heavily used condition and partially denazified.

The Italian decoration "R. Governo d'Albania" is a campaign merit medal for the Albania-Greece-Yugoslavia campaign 28.10.1940 to 23.4.1941.

issued in Steyr on 13.6.1943, as duplicate copy, with photo, mustered as conscript, enlisted on 22.06.1940 with 3. Batterie Flak Ers.Abt.19 from Gotha, further units: Flak Rgt.14, 1 gemisch.Flak.Abt.542 (Mot.Tropen), Flak Rgt.54, Flak-Transport-Batterie 201/VII. Awards: German-Italian Commemorative Medal for the Africa Campaign, Afrika Cuff Title, War Merit Cross 2nd Class with Swords, he participated in several combat operations (from 1.11.1942 African theater of war, from 13.05.1943 deployment in Sicily, later transfer to Croatia, deployment in Hungary from 18.04.1944 transfer to Romania), condition 2+
Award certificate for the Afrika Cuff Title, hole-punched
Also includes a firearms permit for 3 hunting rifles and a firearms permit for a semi-automatic pistol, both issued, Austria 1936
 

with photograph, issued on September 25, 1942, damaged condition.
Comes with his post-war identification card 

issued in Berlin on December 9, 1943, with photograph, validity for 1943-1944 stamped, folded used condition and an additional passport photograph from 1945 included.

who was trained from July 1 to July 7, 1941 in the operation of the two-piece road vehicle for railway cars without deflection device and was examined on July 8, 1941 and is now authorized to operate it, issued in Hamburg on July 25, 1941 by Luftgaukommando XI; used condition.

Wehrpass issued in Jülich on 14.05.1941, with photograph, mustered as volunteer. Enlisted on 28.04.1942 with 9./fl.Ausb.Rgt.32 Lg.Pa.Paris. Additional units: Fliegerhorstkompanie 60/XIII. Training courses; Driver’s license Class 2
Orders and decorations: Wound Badge in Black.
Combat engagements: Deployment in occupied territory West France, Luftwaffe air campaign against England, Sicily Campaign. On page 34 with notation; 06.08.1943 abdominal wound from low-flying aircraft, Sicily. Pages 1 and 2 have detached from the pass, pages have detached from cover, condition 3.
Included is the casualty notification to the father of the deceased; it described in detail how X lost his life, and his final resting place, “he was laid to rest at a manor house on the road Lingusglossa-Randazzo 4.3 km west of Lingualossa”.
This casualty notification also exists as a postwar duplicate copy, from the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge, as well as additional correspondence regarding his reburial from the municipal cemetery of Catania to the war cemetery Motta S.Anastasia near Catania.
Additionally 2 brochures and 1 grave photograph, condition 2

in the XII. year of the National Socialist Revolution, for a boy born in 1940 from Berlin, 1000.-- RM was deposited on 24.12.1940; embossed eagle, inscribed with name, used condition.

Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft - Personal identification card, issued in Gleiwitz on 11.7.1936, with photo; Service identification card as employee at Fliegerhorst Westendorf, with photo, issued by L.P.A. Breslau on 17.3.1943, recorded is the issuance of a lapel pin on 9.11.1943; Wage book for Reich employees and Reich workers in special deployment, issued by L.G.P. Wien, as Staff Assistant (employed as typist), unfortunately only the front cover page and pages 1-4 and 13-16 are present; hole-punched used condition.