Germany, Luftwaffe. A Formal Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross Award Document to Oberleutnant Hans Sumpf, Eastern Front KIA Hold Throughout the next few decades

Throughout the next few decades the name of this regiment would change several times

on December 3rd

Mounted as originally worn on button-hole device

with matching number

Based out of Hampton Roads

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Formal Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross Award Document to Oberleutnant Hans Sumpf, Eastern Front KIA Hold Throughout the next few decades(Luftwaffe Urkunde zum Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes). Constructed of off white calf paper, opening to reveal a hand painted German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, situated above a handwritten India ink dedication and name of OBERLEUTNANT HANS SUMPF, with the recipients name presented in striking regulation raised gilt lettering executed in double strokes, dated 12. NOVEMBER 1941, certified by the handwritten signature of the