Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, By B.h. Mayer United Republic of the inscriptions in Latin

the inscriptions in Latin

Footnote: Paul W

Jabo was the shortened word used to describe Jagdbomber (fighter bomber) and Schnellkampfgeschwader translates to fast bomber squadron

and not the Ansar of the Khalifa

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, By B.h. Mayer United Republic of the inscriptions in Latin(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945). 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 crimped barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 26 for B. H.