Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Version, by Steinhauer & Lück Archive Footnote: James LaPierre Bollong was

Footnote: James LaPierre Bollong was born on August 19

measuring 57 mm (w) x 58

" is the abbreviation for "Kaiserlich und Königlich" (Imperial and Royal)

and an anchor for naval service

5 mm in length)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Screwback Version, by Steinhauer & Lück Archive Footnote: James LaPierre Bollong was(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse an Schraubscheibe). Instituted 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 screwpost retaining an original backplate, with a stabilizer emanating from the twelve oclock