Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Steinhauer & Lück Auction and equipment from the USAAF

and equipment from the USAAF

with a plastic socket with bulb intact

backed by a large fasces

Knight Commander (KCSI) and Companion (CSI)

Strikes on targets in the Japanese home islands laid the ground-work for the Okinawa assault

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Steinhauer & Lück Auction and equipment from the USAAF(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