Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By J.e. Hammer & Söhne consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac had one officer and forty

had one officer and forty enlisted men killed and wounded

The picture with the caption “Zum Oberstfeldmeister befördert” (promoted to Oberstfeldmeister

the obverse consisting of a Sig rune overlaid by a central mobile swastika

Includes: five Airborne Division Ovals (embroidered

with integrated field-grey reverse wool straps

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By J.e. Hammer & Söhne consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac had one officer and forty(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