Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Variant, by Alois Rettenmaier Auction Archive HMS Fred Witt (July 1

HMS Fred Witt (July 1

soiled) and a CD containing forty-eight pages with copies of his Index Cards

the reverse maker marked “HKM” for an unidentified maker

First LIeutenant Hawkins' Navy Congressional Medal of Honor is engraved "THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO 1st LIEUT

in a Studio Folder inscribed "Judd Chattanooga" below the photo

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Variant, by Alois Rettenmaier Auction Archive HMS Fred Witt (July 1(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse an Schraubscheibe). 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 central threaded screw post, with a stabilizer emanating from the twelve oclock arm, marked with LDO code L59