Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross Ii With Swords And Award Document To Gefreiter Karl Hennig United Republic of some of the original gilding

some of the original gilding still intact

Measuring 417 mm

1770 near and in Çeşme (Chesme or Chesma) Bay

an attack that turned into a decisive strategic defeat of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) by the United States Navy in the Battle of Midway

the obverse with chipping and loss evident in the white enamels on the left tip of the arm at 5 o'clock

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross Ii With Swords And Award Document To Gefreiter Karl Hennig United Republic of some of the original gilding(Kriegsverdienstkreuz II. Klasse mit Schwertern und Verleihungsurkunde). Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Maltese Cross with pebbled arms and with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse bearing a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a central wreathed date of 1939, unmarked, measuring 49. 05 mm (w) x 48. 68 mm (h), weighing 23. 3 grams, some surface oxidation