Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Version with Case, by C.E. Juncker Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic issued in 1947

issued in 1947

John proposed marriage to Lydia while on a pass home from Portsmouth

Tunisian on October 3

the obverse with the SS runes inside of an oak wreath

The exterior waist features four belt loops fastening to the breeches with a reinforced butthone meeting a grey zink button

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Version with Case, by C.E. Juncker Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic issued in 1947(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Schraubscheibe und 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 central threaded screw post retaining an original backplate, topped by a stabilizer, the six oclock