Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Wächtler & Lange Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic 4th Grade: three-piece construction

4th Grade: three-piece construction

The Staabswache eventually grew into the SS (Schutzstaffel)

Presque Isle was assigned to Task Unit 1

The second Red Cross Document reads: with the agreement of the Fuhrer and Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Wächtler & Lange Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic 4th Grade: three-piece construction(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 but