Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Arbeitsgemeinschaft Hanau Archive Navigator 1st Lieutenant Barthelmy

Navigator 1st Lieutenant Barthelmy

slightly soiled

Since his Wehrpaß doesn’t mention these assignments

the newspaper article appears to be from late 1945

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Arbeitsgemeinschaft Hanau Archive Navigator 1st Lieutenant Barthelmy(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 six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, the suspension loop