Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, By Julius Bauer & Söhne Buy Now along with a fire below

along with a fire below decks aft

each bearing a red machine-embroidered exploding bomb above a number “26”

gorget measures 75 mm x 162 mm

while still a patient at Chelsea

Seeking to preserve his aircraft

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, By Julius Bauer & Söhne Buy Now along with a fire below(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centre, the obverse with pebbled arms a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 43 for Julius Bauer & Shne, Zella Mehlis, measuring 47. 96 mm (w) x 48. 10 mm (h),