Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Franz Reischauer Archive Having provided some fascinating background

Having provided some fascinating background information on the development of guns and gunners

but it was (belatedly) recognized that a colonial order had no place in the new regime as the order was always historically associated with the period of French rule

the other illustrates an aeroplane flying past the Eiffel Tower in Paris and inscribed "Deutscher Flieger über Paris" at the upper right

bearing an engraved membership code and date of “15

A First War French M15 Adrian Steel Helmet - (Artillery and Tank Corps) French-made

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Franz Reischauer Archive Having provided some fascinating background(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