Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by Rudolf Souval Newly Listed Air Group 15 destroyed more

Air Group 15 destroyed more enemy planes (315 airborne and 348 on the ground) and sank more enemy shipping than any other Air Group in the Pacific War

Naval Airman

The badge is attached to a collar chain bearing twenty-four silver gilt laurel wreaths

which he took on six war-patrols

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, with Case, by Rudolf Souval Newly Listed Air Group 15 destroyed more(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 block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of