Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Bek, Hassinger & Co. certificate_of_authenticity was awarded the Army Distinguished

was awarded the Army Distinguished Service Medal "for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished services to the Government of the United States

He was subsequently interrogated by the Luftwaffe

After the landing

the reverse depicting a Merit Cross

A silver star with a gold cross pattee with four white enameled arms

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Bek, Hassinger & Co. certificate_of_authenticity was awarded the Army Distinguished(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, the suspension loop