Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class By Paul Meybauer, With Case, Dietrich Maerz Collection Newly Listed Footnote: R194853 Sergeant Air (Tail)

Footnote: R194853 Sergeant Air (Tail) Gunner A

United Kingdom: Royal Air Force Sweetheart Pendant (bronze crown and eagle insignias

Hackett suffered a severe gun shot wound to his arm and shoulder on April 25

Footnote: this particular unit was very small with probably few hundred Officers and Men at the most

a Pope & Bradley label states: No: 8160(7

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class By Paul Meybauer, With Case, Dietrich Maerz Collection Newly Listed Footnote: R194853 Sergeant Air (Tail)(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 screwback attachment with backplate, marked with LDO code L 13 for maker Paul Meybauer, Berlin, measuring 44. 44 mm (w)