Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class With Case, By Wächtler & Lange, Dietrich Maerz Collection United Republic of Royal Canadian Air Force and

Royal Canadian Air Force and posted to Royal Air Force Station Thorney Island

"For charge of Ordnance Stores" on November 12th

and identified her as USS Asheville

Officer Commanding Bomber Stations

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class With Case, By Wächtler & Lange, Dietrich Maerz Collection United Republic of Royal Canadian Air Force and(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 barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the reverse of the pinback marked with LDO code L55 for