Romania, Kingdom. An Air Force (Roaf) Pilot Badge, C.1940 certificate_of_authenticity including a War Merit Cross

including a War Merit Cross I Class with Swords

the Feldwebel and his men returned and greeted him as "English swine"

and pinned with a silvered bronze insignia

the son of Matthew Crosby and Harriet Crosby

Romania, Kingdom. An Air Force (Roaf) Pilot Badge, C.1940 certificate_of_authenticity including a War Merit Cross(Forele Aeriene Romne). Insignia in bronze with red, white, blue and black enamels, mounted to a silvered brass spread winged eagle base, measuring 43. 7 mm (w) x 57. 5 mm (h), vertical pinback, one of the four red enamelled portions in the crown has been lost to time, otherwise, the enamels are intact, the pinback missing its pin slider, streaking evident on the reverse, better than very fine.