Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, With Customized Case, By Wächtler & Lange Archive The blade exhibits surface wear

The blade exhibits surface wear

The interior of the shirt is plain and unmarked

while the Navy and Marine Corps refer to it as the Combat Distinguishing Device or Combat "V"

Winterbourn / FOR FIVE YEARS SERVICE / Joined Sept

Footnote: Stanley Ladanchuk enrolled for five years' service in the Royal Canadian Navy as an Ordinary Seaman

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, With Customized Case, By Wächtler & Lange Archive The blade exhibits surface wear(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse mit Etui). 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