Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Hold the quadrants of the cross

the quadrants of the cross joined by gilt laurel leaves

credited with having served twenty months overseas

The booklet features 36 neatly written and clearly legible entries of her family’s heritage on her father’s and mother’s side

The cemetery became the repository for the fatalities in the bitter fighting through the Heasbourg Gap during the winter of 1944-1945

2nd (with "Hell on Wheels" flash)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Hold the quadrants of the cross(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, unmarked, measuring