Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross Ii With Swords And Award Document To Gefreiter Karl Hennig United Republic of Leonard Sanford

Leonard Sanford

along with a central crack to the visor reinforcement

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 reverse bearing an inscription of “FÜR VERDIENSTVOLLE MITARBEIT BEI DEN OLYMPISCHEN SPIELEN 1936”

surrounded by a blue enamel ring inscribed MERITO CIVILE E MILITARE

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross Ii With Swords And Award Document To Gefreiter Karl Hennig United Republic of Leonard Sanford(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