Germany. An Iron Cross 1939 Second Class United Republic of the Spitfire

the Spitfire

Thurmann commissioned the Type VIIC U-boat U-553 on 23 December 1940

with machine embroidered RLB symbol in white and black threads

unmarked but textbook “C

to his right arm and the right side of his abdomen at 7:30 am

Germany. An Iron Cross 1939 Second Class United Republic of the SpitfireAn Iron Cross 1939 Second Class Eisernes Kreuz 1939 2. Klasse; a cross patte of multi piece construction with a blackened iron core (magnetic) within a ribbed border; on loop for suspension (unmarked); with its period original ribbon; the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm; the reverse with the original institution date 1813 in raised numbering on the lower arm;