Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class With Case, By B.h. Mayer, Dietrich Maerz Collection Hold Two Anti-aircraft Cloth Badge -

Two Anti-aircraft Cloth Badge - Machine embroidered

The doctor noted that Cruise "states (his) leg (gets) tired some when doing route marches (but he is) always able to carry on"

with Kraskowski embarking from Southampton on February 25

29 mm (w) x 52

(Regimentally impressed inverted naming: THOMAS GRACE)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class With Case, By B.h. Mayer, Dietrich Maerz Collection Hold Two Anti-aircraft Cloth Badge -(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). 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 barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of manufacture by the firm of B. H. Mayer, Pforzheim,