Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, With Case, By Deschler & Sohn Newly Listed Footnote: The Guatemalan Air Force

Footnote: The Guatemalan Air Force is a small air force composed mostly of U

Twenty-four Photographs (two of Walter H

It is also inscribed in running script "Grant of the dignity of an Ordinary Member of the Military Division of the Order of the British Empire to Lieutenant John Hughes

The helmet measures 299 mm x 242 mm

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, With Case, By Deschler & Sohn Newly Listed Footnote: The Guatemalan Air Force(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern und Etui). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross, the obverse with pebbled arms, with a central wreathed mobile swastika and crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 1 for Deschler & Sohn, Mnchen, measuring 48. 25 mm (w) x 48. 09 mm (h), weighing 20.