Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Archive as Sergeant and Platoon Leader

as Sergeant and Platoon Leader in the 12th Company of the Mountain Troop Regiment 91 for conquering and defending the important Bgalar mountain pass on the way to Sukhumi on the coast of the Black Sea

horizontal pin back

twenty-one with a single screwback

Legion of Merit Award Document (inscribed "THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / TO ALL WHO SHALL SEE THESE PRESENTS

from September 4 to 30

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Archive as Sergeant and Platoon Leader(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. 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 arn with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, the twelve oclock arm with an integral loop accommodating a suspension ring