Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, Spanish-Made For Blue Division Veterans Newly Listed as part of the Allied

as part of the Allied force invading France by launching Operation Neptune

printed in black ink by "Imprimerie Nationale" (National Printing)

the paper is of unusually thin quality

45 mm x 55

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, Spanish-Made For Blue Division Veterans Newly Listed as part of the Allied(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse eines spanischen Freiwilligen der Blauen Division). Constructed of a blackened and silvered zink alloy, on loop for suspension from a mis matched War Merit Cross ribbons with a silvered brass buckle and horizontal pinback, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened and pebbled 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