Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, with Recipient Photo visually-hidden The shoulders are flanked by

The shoulders are flanked by boards constructed of rose-pink wool with card stock cores and topped by four bands of interwoven silver aluminum wire piping

speculations about the nature of these missions tend to go towards them being too controversial to remain in official records

on five-sided suspension ribbon with horizontal pinback

1917 to February 26

France was divided into five zones

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross II Class, with Recipient Photo visually-hidden The shoulders are flanked by(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse mit Foto). 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,