Germany, Wehrmacht. A Cased 1939 Iron Cross I Class, By Gebrüder Godet & Co., Dietrich Maerz Collection Newly Listed 3) A War Merit Cross

3) A War Merit Cross Second Class ribbon with Swords

Picture postcard & signature of Oak Leaves & Swords recipient and fighter ace Joachim Müncheberg

Footnote: The K-Verband was a Kriegsmarine Unit that operated midget submarines and explosive speedboats that operated between April 1944 and April 1945

the K-17 was rammed and sunk by the destroyer H

The veteran world traveling ship was decommissioned in August 1865 and sold at public auction at Boston on October 5

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Cased 1939 Iron Cross I Class, By Gebrüder Godet & Co., Dietrich Maerz Collection Newly Listed 3) A War Merit Cross(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 vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, marked underneath the catch with code L 50 for maker