Description
with one of the Jugendführertagung records missing its sleeve
and attractive patina on the cross
Ivernia was hired by the British government as a troop transport and was placed under the command of Captain William Thomas Turner
Stitched onto the front of the cap is a RAD insignia in the form of a silver aluminum wire and red-threaded shovel head bearing a black mobile swastika
just before Operation Cobra
Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords And Case certificate_of_authenticity with one of the Jugendführertagung(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern und Etui). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 48. 09 mm (w) x 47. 62 mm (h), weighing 22. 9 grams, accompanied by its period original presentation case,