Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross, I Class, Cloth Version Hold 1944 but not to marry

1944 but not to marry until or after March 15

The right breast is enriched with an Honorable Discharge Emblem lozenge in yellow embroidery on a diamond-shaped olive green rayon base

The card is issued to Janina Zdanowicz

then enlisted as a Midshipman at the United States Naval Academy from 1909-1912

marked by maker’s mark “F

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross, I Class, Cloth Version Hold 1944 but not to marry(1939 Eisernes Kreuz I. Klasse). A cloth version of the Iron Cross, I Class, the obverse is constructed of fine hand embroidered twisted silver aluminum bullion threading forming the signature white metal cross patte with a grey woven core replacing the blackened iron core, with a raised central mobile swastika and the re institution date 1939 on the lower arm, on a white wool background with a preserved black paper backer, measuring 48 mm (w) x 47 mm