Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Steinhauer & Lück Newly Listed white satin lining and padded

white satin lining and padded on the inside lid

shooting down another French plane

at the age of 23 and was interred in the United States National Cemetery in Noumea

1930 period production with thin pin

a crimped hinge and a crimped round wire catch

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Steinhauer & Lück Newly Listed white satin lining and padded(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 block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 4 for