Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Klein & Quenzer Newly Listed and issuing about 80 tons

and issuing about 80 tons of wireless stores of a highly varied nature

In the photo accompanying the article from the Detroit News of August 2

centre in silver gilt with a ancient stylized cross of the order in horizontally patterned red enamel

due to drunkenness and destroying a Naval Pattern Cup which was the property of a comrade

1884 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Klein & Quenzer Newly Listed and issuing about 80 tons(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, 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 six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, the suspension loop