A Luftwaffe Signals (Nachtrichten) Nco/Enlisted Man's Visor Cap By Willy Rast, Nürnberg Hold before being discharged to duty

before being discharged to duty on the 24th

reverse bottom arm marked  under the enamel “K” and makers mark (Eduard)

the throat held in place by one screw

Officially impressed (E

Barkerended his Italian service with some 33 airplanes claimed destroyed and nine observation balloons downed individually or with other pilots

A Luftwaffe Signals (Nachtrichten) Nco/Enlisted Man's Visor Cap By Willy Rast, Nürnberg Hold before being discharged to dutyFabricated in Luftwaffe blue gray Fliegerblau (Flier's Blue) wool, with a wide black ribbed rayon cap band, traditional high peak with matching cinnamon brown piping along the top edge and flanking either side of the band, indicating the branch to be Signals. It is decorated with a well detailed silvered aluminum Luftwaffe eagle insignia on the peak and an oak leaf wreath with stylized wings and cockade on the band, the latter in silvered aluminum