Germany, Federal Republic. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, 1957 Version United Republic of as planned for

as planned for

He was aboard his aircraft on the night of January 16/17

Naming is officially engraved on the reverse of the suspension bar of the CFD

the cover with a NSDAP-style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika

Germany, Federal Republic. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, 1957 Version United Republic of as planned for(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue; post 1957 reissue). Constructed of iron and neusilber, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed neusilber frame, the obverse with three central oak leaves, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flattened catch, unmarked, measuring