Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, With Award Document, To Obergefreiter Denk certificate_of_authenticity addressed and messaged

addressed and messaged

was Killed in Action near Dinozé in northeastern France

as his time had expired

Mellon would be hospitalized for five and a half months at Moore Barracks

1961 and 1966

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, With Award Document, To Obergefreiter Denk certificate_of_authenticity addressed and messaged(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, measuring