Germany, Luftwaffe. A Formal Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross Award Document to Hauptmann Heinrich Wittmer, Kampfgeschwader 55 Republic of awarded at divisional headquarters on

awarded at divisional headquarters on 11 July 1944

thirty-four with screwbacks

1st Class for Forty Years' - Bronze gilt with black enamels

consisting of a first pattern droptail-style Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika

four American awards:

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Formal Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross Award Document to Hauptmann Heinrich Wittmer, Kampfgeschwader 55 Republic of awarded at divisional headquarters on(Urkunde zum Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes). A rare and well preserved formal Knights Cross of the Iron Cross award document, constructed of a heavy card stock binder with a red saffian (goatskin) leather exterior liner, the cover bearing a gilded and embossed German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, opening to reveal covers lined with off white parchment and situated within gilt borders, the lower edge of the back cover bearing