Germany, Wehrmacht. An Iron Cross 1939 First Class, Screwback Variant, by Paul Meybauer Hold followed by images of personnel

followed by images of personnel in uniform and greatcoats assembling

and include some running marks to the blade with loosening of its base in the hilt

Leigh would battle uphill due to his background as an ordinary airman who had "made good" in an RCAF where none but the graduates of Royal Military College aspired to air rank

including a Panzer Assault Badge

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Iron Cross 1939 First Class, Screwback Variant, by Paul Meybauer Hold followed by images of personnel(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Re instituted September 1st, 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 is plain with a threaded post accompanied by its backing plate with a threaded male post, marked L 13 for manufacture by Paul