Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare Knight’s Cross Of The War Merit Cross With Swords, In Silver, By Deschler & Sohn Archive along with the tip missing

along with the tip missing at the upper left in the black wool)

one sword lightly bent

The cuff of each sleeve features a vertical slit with a hidden reinforced buttonhole

with two postage stamps featuring the profile of AH

Some eighteen aircraft and several hundred aircrew escaped the Axis invasion of April 1941 to the Allied base in Egypt

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare Knight’s Cross Of The War Merit Cross With Swords, In Silver, By Deschler & Sohn Archive along with the tip missing(Ritterkreuz des Kriegsverdienstkreuzes mit Schwertern). Instituted 18 October 1939. (1940 1945 issue). Constructed of silver, consisting of a Maltese Cross with pebbled arms, with a pair of crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse bearing a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a central wreathed date of 1939, the twelve oclock arm topped by two ribbed bars which converge on an integral loop connecting to a suspension