with a single silvered rank pip on each (nonmatching)
The throat retains a functional catch to lock onto the blade’s clip
arriving in Sumatra just after the Royal Air Force evacuation of Singapore and was placed in command of Bomber Squadrons in Sumatra and Java
where she was an escort to German cruisers Prinz Eugen and Nürnberg until their formal surrender
Acid-etched onto the obverse is a central Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika
Germany, Heer. A Lot of Award Documents and Photographs to Feldwebel Walter Haas, German Cross in Gold Recipient visually-hidden with a single silvered rank(Heer Verleihungsurkunden und Fotos). A superb and fascinating lot of award documents and private wartime photographs to Feldwebel Walter Haas, a highly decorated Eastern Front combat veteran, including: 1. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class award document, named to Haas as an Unteroffizier of Infanterie Regiment 521, issued at divisional headquarters on 7 July 1941, certified by the handwritten signature of Generalmajor Wilhelm Stemmermann (Knights Cross of