Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Schinkel-Style By Wilhelm Deumer Buy Now 196th Infantry Battalion

196th Infantry Battalion

According to his Flugbuch he started training with the Imperial Air Force on board the Albatros

1897 in Paris

manufactured by Griesbach & Knaus

a C Class submarine that was noted for making two successful reconnaissance trips off the Belgian coast at Zeebrugge

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Schinkel-Style By Wilhelm Deumer Buy Now 196th Infantry Battalion(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 wraparound hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of manufacture