Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by Paul Meybauer Republic of an Army interpreter

an Army interpreter

A two-piece black cotton drawstring set into the waist functions as a belt

(Heer Tropen Schulterklappen für Männer der Flak/Artillery)

preparing for his final posting at RCAF Torbay

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by Paul Meybauer Republic of an Army interpreter(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 central threaded screwpost retaining an original backplate, with a stabilizer emanating from the twelve oclock arm, the