Germany, Wehrmacht. A Parade-Mounted 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Newly Listed with three non-magnetic metal inlaid

with three non-magnetic metal inlaid bands

Footnote: 16715-H Pilot Officer 1st Class William Michael Clarke was a Naval Aviator (Observer) in the Royal Canadian Navy

ihm sei die Ehre” (“God was with us

number stamped "3723" on the reverse

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Parade-Mounted 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Newly Listed with three non-magnetic metal inlaid(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, affixed to a parade mount with a horizontal pinback and red wool reverse liner, 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