Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By F.w. Assmann & Söhne Hold Solingen insignia

Solingen insignia

and the brigade was assigned to the 6th Airborne Division

studio marked "Scheetz 33 CHESTNUT ST

above a tri-colour cockade

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By F.w. Assmann & Söhne Hold Solingen insignia(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, unmarked but with the