Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Arbeitsgemeinschaft Hanau Auction Archive (Deutsche Olympia-Erinnerungsmedaille)

(Deutsche Olympia-Erinnerungsmedaille)

A First War American Distinguished Service Cross - First Type

Constructed of a white cotton blend with red machine-embroidered Geneva Cross and black text reading “Deutsches Rotes Kreuz” (“German Red Cross”)

R” on the reverse

1940 for Air Defence with the 608 Heavy Flak Battalion

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Arbeitsgemeinschaft Hanau Auction Archive (Deutsche Olympia-Erinnerungsmedaille)(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