Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Paulmann & Crone United Republic of showing a German Heer couple

showing a German Heer couple in a black-and-white photograph

Navigator 1st Lieutenant Barthelmy

surrounded by a stylized belt with an inscription of “MERENTI” (“FOR MERIT”)

he came "under fire with [a] convoy when attacked on February 2

Strategic Command for space operations

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Paulmann & Crone United Republic of showing a German Heer couple(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 with an initial institution date of 1813, unmarked but with the physical