Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Steinhauer & Lück Auction Archive with a Luftwaffe grey wool

with a Luftwaffe grey wool backer

stamped "FKS" and "82" ("FKS" indicating the manufacturer

on an original shortened neck ribbon with the colours used on the award when the country was known as Zaire (1971-1997)

2nd Infantry Battalion was declared "missing" and "presumed to have died" on April 22

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Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Steinhauer & Lück Auction Archive with a Luftwaffe grey wool(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). 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 LDO code L 16 for