Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class By Funcke & Brüninghaus Auction Archive USS Cushing was able to

USS Cushing was able to hit the Kongo class destroyer Hiei with three torpedoes

He was then transferred from the 7 Battery at Premier Camp to the Reserve of Officers of the 12th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment on February 10

where he was treated

returning to the Base Depot

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class By Funcke & Brüninghaus Auction Archive USS Cushing was able to(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). 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 screw and backplate, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of manufacture by Funcke & Brninghaus, Ldenscheid, measuring