Germany. An Iron Cross 1939 Second Class Newly Listed measuring approximately 141 mm x

measuring approximately 141 mm x 57 mm

Belt with fine aluminum wire and two rows of black embroidered dashes flanking a central row of red embroidered dashes and interlaced with white threading on the upper

and was assigned to a strategic bombing role

on his eighty-seventh birthday

Double prong open-claw buckle in silvered feinzink on the right end

Germany. An Iron Cross 1939 Second Class Newly Listed measuring approximately 141 mm xAn Eisernes Kreuz 1939 2. Klasse; a cross patte of multi piece construction with a blackened iron core (magnetic) within a ribbed border; on loop for suspension (unmarked); with its period original ribbon; the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm; the reverse with the original institution date 1813 in raised numbering on the lower arm; measuring 44. 10 mm (w) x 44. 04 mm