Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Hold and Military Service Medal

and Military Service Medal

he took a job as a Secretary and Stenographer with the Pennsylvania Railroad in Pittsburgh (1940-1941)

as a pretext to abandon his own advance

with unusual crimping of pin and catch on reverse

65 mm (w) x 49

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Hold and Military Service Medal(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 an 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, measuring