Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Second Class Auction Archive assigned to take the city

assigned to take the city of Stalingrad and cover approximately 800 kilometers of front

with its period original ribbon (faded)

flanked by laurel leaf motives on the left and right sides

USS Cushing lost about seventy men killed or missing

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Second Class Auction Archive assigned to take the city(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Instituted on 1. 9. 1939. (Issued 1939 1945). A Cross Patte of multi piece construction with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver border, the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse plain with the exception of original institution date of 1813 in raised numbering on lower arm, on loop for suspension from its