A Luftwaffe evening dress mess jacket, Fine Luftwaffe blue gabardine with grey silk liner bearing a tailor's label of "Stechbarth/Berlin" with wearer's name "Obstlt. H. Rath - ". Upgraded through promotion, with gold-coloured collar cording and golden buttons, gold-embroidered breast eagle on sewn-in shoulder boards in cello embroidery. Hans-Joachim Rath, 1940 - 42 commander of KG 4 (bomber sqadron 4) "General Wever", received the Knight's Cross on 9 May 1942, commander of Pilot School 4 in Thorn, 1943 commander of air forces on Crete, senior commander o,
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