Germany, Luftwaffe. An Em/Nco’s Belt And Buckle Hold Russian Academy of Sciences Service

Russian Academy of Sciences Service Medal (bronze

In 1937 he was promoted to SS-Obersturmführer and made Chief of the 3rd Sturm of the SS-Pioniersturmbann

Kurt Pflugbeil was captured by Soviet troops in the Courland Pocket in 1945

the reverse engraved with the date 1926 and the Gothic initial for W

Germany, Luftwaffe. An Em/Nco’s Belt And Buckle Hold Russian Academy of Sciences Service(Luftwaffe Grtel). A Luftwaffe EM NCOs belt and buckle, the former constructed of brown leather, with an interior strap featuring an array of eight dual holes for an adjustable fit, the opposite end with an aluminum clasp, unmarked, measuring 45 mm (w) x 855 mm (l), including its buckle, constructed of aluminum, the obverse with a central Luftwaffe style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika on a pebbled field, within an oval laurel leaf