Germany, Luftwaffe. A Luftwaffe Front Flying Clasp For Transport Pilots, Gold Grade Newly Listed the Defence of Leningrad Medal

the Defence of Leningrad Medal with incorrect ribbon

was named Bombardier SAFA on July 1st and posted to the 3rd Battery on July 26th

Footnote: Hugh McLeod was born on July 6

encirclement and destruction of the enemy at Podwyssokojy in August

1945 by the British and taken to Howaldtswerke to be examined

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Luftwaffe Front Flying Clasp For Transport Pilots, Gold Grade Newly Listed the Defence of Leningrad Medal(Frontflugspange fr Transport und Luftlandflieger, in Gold). Instituted on 30. 1. 1941 by Reichsmarshall Hermann Gring. (Issued 1941 1945). Constructed of gilded zink, the obverse with a central laurel wreath with a Luftwaffe eagle clutching a swastika in the centre, with nine oak leaves on either side of the wreath, the reverse plain, with a horizontal banjo style tapered pinback, with a sheet metal hinge, and a flat wire catch, measuring 77. 03 mm