Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Rudolf Souval GTRexclude France on the 12th

France on the 12th

While in the French theatre

in the name of the President of the United States and by direction of the Secretary of the Navy

signed in blue ink by Walter Pauck

maps and observations of his pilot’s/Luftwaffe training

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Rudolf Souval GTRexclude France on the 12th(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse with a central mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of