Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class Newly Listed measuring 75 mm x 20

measuring 75 mm x 20 mm

the reverse with a central date of “7

this time to the 5th Infantry Battalion for overseas service in the French theatre on December 31

JOHNSON) Naming is engraved

only one of which threw out a rescue line

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class Newly Listed measuring 75 mm x 20(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of silver, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened 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 banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 44. 49 mm (w) x 44. 40 mm (h), weighing 17. 3 grams, in better than