Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class Newly Listed 22 July 1943 GIVEN UNDER

22 July 1943 GIVEN UNDER MY HAND IN THE CITY OF WASHINGTON THIS 1st DAY OF March 1949"

1945 and signed in pencil by a Lieutenant and Company Leader

ranks as one of the three greatest documents of the English-speaking world

Petch’s total flying time contained in his logbook is 659

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class Newly Listed 22 July 1943 GIVEN UNDER(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 block hinge and vertical pinback meeting a rounded catch, unmarked, measuring 44. 32 mm (w) x 44. 37 mm (h), weighing 20. 0