Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class With Case, By Wächtler & Lange, Dietrich Maerz Collection Auction Archive 1941 in Chatham

1941 in Chatham

a period later described by Hunter in his Staff College submission: "I well remember one morning I was on the line at dawn and found some lorries behind the village of Martinpoich (Martinpuich

obverse stamped on both sides of the double slotted centre (not legible)

two vertical pins on reverse

a Royal Canadian Air Force "The Morse Code and How to Learn It" Booklet

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class With Case, By Wächtler & Lange, Dietrich Maerz Collection Auction Archive 1941 in Chatham(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, the reverse of the pinback marked with LDO code L55 for