Description
A Schützenburger Marksmanship and Volks-Fest Badge
Regular Army on June 12th
increasing Allied losses and ultimately lengthening the duration of the battle
A portion of a company on our left was completely wiped out by a machine gun barrage fire
and fine stamped silvered bronze pilot's box (in which these items were acquired) 12
Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class By C.f. Zimmermann United Republic of A Schützenburger Marksmanship and Volks-Fest(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). A Cross Patte of multi piece construction, 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 a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked with code 20 for C. F. Zimmermann,