Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by Rudolf Souval Republic of (SS Schüssel und Gabel)

(SS Schüssel und Gabel)

excellent performance in combat and political training

M Schiff Kaiserin Elisabeth

she served on the frigid Murmansk run to Russia and in clearing the English Channel for the Normandy invasion

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by Rudolf Souval Republic of (SS Schüssel und Gabel)(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 wide banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of