Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Version with Case, by C.F. Zimmermann visually-hidden and Medal for the Defence

and Medal for the Defence of the Caucasus (in brass

Looped through the top buttonhole is a 1939 Iron Cross II Class ribbon

attending college at Loyola University for the next three years

After the war Baur became a military courier pilot and was then hired to fly for the Junkers company

an eight-armed white enamelled Maltese cross with a green enamelled laurel wreath between the outer arms of the cross

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Version with Case, by C.F. Zimmermann visually-hidden and Medal for the Defence(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse an Schraubscheibe 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 central threaded screw post retaining an original backplate, with a stabilizer emanating from the