Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class With Case, By Wächtler & Lange, Dietrich Maerz Collection Auction Archive He was the 100th Luftwaffe

He was the 100th Luftwaffe pilot to achieve the century mark

yet every source lists his first name as “Sylvester”

he was drafted to the H

very attractive and scarce wing

a Royal Canadian Air Force "The Morse Code and How to Learn It" Booklet

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class With Case, By Wächtler & Lange, Dietrich Maerz Collection Auction Archive He was the 100th Luftwaffe(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). 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 barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the reverse of the pinback marked with LDO code L55 for