Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class, By Deschler & Sohn GTRexclude We give the Maryknoll Missionaries

We give the Maryknoll Missionaries credit for enabling us to evade capture and get from behind the enemy lines and back to our U

with a reverse leather tongue perforated with four wide slits set into the centre and two additional sliding brown leather loops retaining metal rings

measuring 102 mm (w) x 42 mm (h))

After the Russians carried out daring recon from the north and east with tanks

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class, By Deschler & Sohn GTRexclude We give the Maryknoll Missionaries(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross, the obverse with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 1 for Deschler & Sohn, Munich, measuring 48. 66 mm (w) x 48. 52 mm (h), weighing 17. 6 grams, demonstrating natural silver tarnishing throughout, in mint