Germany, Wehrmacht. A Clasp To The Iron Cross 1939, I Class, Type Ii GTRexclude Service Abroad and Home Service)

Service Abroad and Home Service) and be discharged as Medically Unfit for further Military Service"

the Japanese South Seas Detachment under Major General Tomitarō Horii clashed with under-strength Australian forces from the Papuan Infantry Battalion and the Australian 39th Battalion on July 23rd at Awala

and guns/vehicles captured

consisting of a stylized acorn constructed of multiple rows of twisted and rolled silver aluminum wire interwoven with green theadring

two Bars to the M

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Clasp To The Iron Cross 1939, I Class, Type Ii GTRexclude Service Abroad and Home Service)(Spange zum Eisernen Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Constructed of silvered tombak, the obverse consisting of a detailed Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, above a trapezoidal plaque bearing a raised date of 1939, the reverse with a block hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 45. 32 mm (w) x 30. 80 mm (h), weighing 9. 8 grams, with some loss of finish evident, in overall near extremely fine