An Iron Cross 1939 Second Class & Sudetenland Medal Pair With Ribbon Bar Archive 1913) before World War I

1913) before World War I

For the Allies

along with stints at Ft

marked "ORIGINAL" and "GES

The Cross resembles somewhat the Cross for War Merit (Croce al Merito di Guerra) and is often referred to as the "Croce al Merito di Guerra per le Operazioni Militari in Spagna" (Cross for War Merit for the Military Operations in Spain)

An Iron Cross 1939 Second Class & Sudetenland Medal Pair With Ribbon Bar Archive 1913) before World War IA second war German medal bar grouping, consisting of 1) An Iron Cross 1939 Second Class; white metal cross patte of multi piece construction with a blackened iron core (magnetic) within a white metal ribbed border; on loop for suspension; 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;