Germany, SS. An Award Document for a 1939 Iron Cross I Class to SS-Obersturmführer Hermann Schmidt, Operation Barbarossa certificate_of_authenticity Jabo was the shortened word

Jabo was the shortened word used to describe Jagdbomber (fighter bomber) and Schnellkampfgeschwader translates to fast bomber squadron

overlaid by a swooping Luftwaffe eagle clutching a pair of lightning bolts

Footnote: John Henry Whitworth was born on March 26

badge weighs 19

and laying on two ears of corn

Germany, SS. An Award Document for a 1939 Iron Cross I Class to SS-Obersturmführer Hermann Schmidt, Operation Barbarossa certificate_of_authenticity Jabo was the shortened word(Waffen SS Verleihungsurkunde fr das Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). An award document for the 1939 Iron Cross I Class, named to SS OBERSTURMFHRER HERMANN SCHMIDT, 2. SS Infanterie Bataillon (mot.), issued in the field on 19 July 1941 and certified by the handwritten signature of an unidentified SS Standartenfhrer, measuring 14. 5 cm (w) x 21 cm (h), demonstrating a central crease and two punched holes consistent with previous album storage, awarded