Germany, Wehrmacht. An Iron Cross 1939, I Class In Case By Otto Schickle GTRexclude For the role he had

For the role he had played in early 1944

Dresden" with a personalized inscription in blue ink

All 45 crewmen were lost

and the star of the Order in gold on the left chest

missing its original pin

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Iron Cross 1939, I Class In Case By Otto Schickle GTRexclude For the role he had(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 1. Klasse). An Iron Cross 1939 First Class, a cross patte of multi piece construction with a brass core (non magnetic) within a ribbed border, the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse plain, with a slender banjo style vertical pinback, a barrel hinge, and a flat wire catch, unmarked but bearing the physical characteristics of manufacture