Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint 1939 Iron Cross II Class, with Issue Package, by C.E. Juncker Hold extremely fine) to Lieutenant Kretschmer

extremely fine) to Lieutenant Kretschmer (misspelled Kretschmar) of the 1st Squadron of Complementary Fighter Group 54

bearing a machine-embroidered off-white Luftwaffe-style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika

and United States: Legion of Merit

MIA Over Coastal Zone 3

the reverse inscribed “Viruti” (Latin - Virtue)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint 1939 Iron Cross II Class, with Issue Package, by C.E. Juncker Hold extremely fine) to Lieutenant Kretschmer(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse mit Tte). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, 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 six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, unmarked but