Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by B.H. Mayer Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic My Country

My Country

measuring 42 mm (w) x 16 mm (h)

An example of a gold grade “Verwundetenabzeichen”

1957 and awarded to all personnel serving on February 23

1933 at Chicago

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, by B.H. Mayer Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic My Country(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). 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 tapering vertical pinback meeting a rounded catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 26 for B.