Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Wilhelm Deumer Auction Archive pin marked G

pin marked G

It was the testimony of survivor Private First Class Eugene Nielsen that convinced the United States military to embark on a campaign to save the POWs in the Philippines in 1945

from May 10 to May 14

Even after the start of the war he was given patrol duty and instructing future pilots

The reverse bears a maker’s mark of “E

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Wilhelm Deumer Auction Archive pin marked G(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). 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 block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked with LDO code L 11 for Wilhelm Deumer,