Germany, Luftwaffe. A Major Helmut Wick Wartime Postcard certificate_of_authenticity 3rd Degree Silver Star

3rd Degree Silver Star

secured together with dual bronze rivets

Coastal Artillery breast eagle

Returned following a kick by a horse

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Major Helmut Wick Wartime Postcard certificate_of_authenticity 3rd Degree Silver Star(Luftwaffe Postkarte). A wartime postcard depicting Major Helmut Wick, a Luftwaffe fighter ace with 56 confirmed victories who was killed in action over the English Channel during just weeks after the Battle of Britain, with Wick depicted in uniform and with the Knights Cross with Oak Leaves clearly visible, the reverse unused and with a Hoffmann studio mark, measuring 90 mm (w) x 140 mm (h), in extremely fine condition.