Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Hold lookouts aboard HMS Sheffield noted

lookouts aboard HMS Sheffield noted the presence of Bismarck and Prinz Eugen making their way to the southwest along the ice at a fast rate of speed

181 mm x 218 mm

after which she was briefly employed by a restaurant

A traditional (1940’s-1980’s) French Foreign Legion Kepi

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class Hold lookouts aboard HMS Sheffield noted(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). A Cross Patte of multi piece construction, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver border, the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse with an initial institution date of 1813 on the lower arm, unmarked,