Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Early Spanish-Made Variant for Blue Division Veterans consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac and South Vietnam Campaign Medal

and South Vietnam Campaign Medal (45567 M

This badge was introduced in 1943

On a studio portrait of Schütz the photographer’s name

with a black enameled border inscribed “Deutsches Rotes Kreuz Helferin”

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Early Spanish-Made Variant for Blue Division Veterans consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac and South Vietnam Campaign Medal(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse eines spanischen Freiwilligen der Blauen Division). Constructed of blackened and silvered brass, consisting of a one piece vaulted Cross Patte with a blackened core within a silvered frame, the obverse with a central mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse with a clip hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of an