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AUCTION 29: MILITARY ORDERS, DECORATIONS, ARMS AND ARMOR
The Prussian personalized Pilot Badge to a Pour le Merite Winner Franz Walz.Pilot’s Badge was awarded on 27 January 1913 by the King of Prussia and the Emperor of the German Empire Wilhelm II in conjunction with his birthday. Engraved on the back: Hptm Franz Walz / Flg. Abt. 304B / 1918.Generalleutnant Franz Walz began his military career in the infantry in 1905. In 1912, he switched to aviation. He attained the rank of Hauptmann (Captain) while becoming a flying ace during World War I. He flew more than 500 combat sorties in Palestine and upon the Western Front. He scored seven confirmed aerial victories in the latter theater. His later career led him to join the Luftwaffe during World War II. Toward the end of the war, he was captured by the Russians and died in one of their prison camps in December 1945.
Dimensions: 3 in., (78 mm.)
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