Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Dagger, Second Pattern, By Carl Eickhorn GTRexclude Footnote: Wilhelm Emil “Willy” Messerschmitt

Footnote: Wilhelm Emil “Willy” Messerschmitt was born on 26 June 1898 in Frankfurt-am-Main

measuring 92 mm (w) x 126

Footnote: This badge was awarded to those officers who led soldiers into combat

he returned to England and was posted to the Ontario Regimental Depot on May 11th

his wife was not entitled to a Memorial Cross

Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Dagger, Second Pattern, By Carl Eickhorn GTRexclude Footnote: Wilhelm Emil “Willy” Messerschmitt(Luftwaffe Offiziersdolch). A well preserved, second pattern Luftwaffe Officers dagger, measuring 430 mm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 265 mm long polished magnetic steel blade with a sharpened tip and semi sharpened edges. The blade presents plain with the exception of a makers mark on the reverse ricasso of ORIGINAL EICKHORN, SOLINGEN, circumscribing the firms classic logo of a squirrel clutching a sword. It sits