Luftwaffe PO8 Named & Unit Marked Holster – Item 115251

Third Reich Luftwaffe Majors PO8 Holster. Rat bite to one edge of holster from storage at one time. Loft find in untouched condition. Dated 1939 and named to rear Major Kurt Dahlmann of 111/KG51. A rare holster to high ranking pilot.

Note: He flew over 350 combat missions between September 1940 and 5 May 1945 and was awarded the Knights Cross (No. 711) for flying 200 missions and subsequently the Oak leaves for having successfully completed 300 combat missions becoming the highest decorated German Jabo pilot of the war. Dahlmann finished the war as a Major commanding I./SKG 10, III./KG 51 and NSG 20.