Germany, Wehrmacht. A Parade-Mounted 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Newly Listed Bronze (179 Muleteer Elum Din

Bronze (179 Muleteer Elum Din Const

Air Group 15 destroyed more enemy planes (315 airborne and 348 on the ground) and sank more enemy shipping than any other Air Group in the Pacific War

the lid bearing the Imperial crowned cypher of Tsar Ferdinand I (reign: 1887-1908) above the inscription "ОРДЕНЪ ЗА ВОЕННА ЗАСЛУГА V

Footnote: 16715-H Pilot Officer 1st Class William Michael Clarke was a Naval Aviator (Observer) in the Royal Canadian Navy

A one page document signed by Senator John F

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Parade-Mounted 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Newly Listed Bronze (179 Muleteer Elum Din(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, affixed to a parade mount with a horizontal pinback and red wool reverse liner, 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