Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross, I Class, Cloth Version Auction Archive mounted to a five-sided aluminum

mounted to a five-sided aluminum suspension with pinback)

he reported from the base "wounded" on September 26th

A traditional current issue French Foreign Legion Kepi

marked 37 mm in diameter

able to fight as fighter planes in the air or in bombing and strafing attacks of enemy ground targets

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross, I Class, Cloth Version Auction Archive mounted to a five-sided aluminum(1939 Eisernes Kreuz I. Klasse). A cloth version of the Iron Cross, I Class, the obverse is constructed of fine hand embroidered twisted silver aluminum bullion threading forming the signature white metal cross patte with a grey woven core replacing the blackened iron core, with a raised central mobile swastika and the re institution date 1939 on the lower arm, on a white wool background with a preserved black paper backer, measuring 48 mm (w) x 47 mm