Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class United Republic of Royal Canadian Artillery

Royal Canadian Artillery

or or on the airplane itself

2 and 5 Qualifications with Oder-Kreis Gau III stamps

the reverse lightly textured and inscribed “Für Verdienste um das Deutsche Rote Kreuz” (German - For Service in the German Red Cross)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class United Republic of Royal Canadian Artillery(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). 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 round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 44. 22 mm (w) x 44. 29 mm (h), weighing 15.