Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross II Class with Swords, with Privately-Commissioned Case consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac one depicting a burning village

one depicting a burning village on the Eastern Front and one depicting an assembly of Heer soldiers

with an intact horizontal pinback

the medal bar with a zink core and a red wool backer

Provided that there were two planes named "Europa" and "Bremen"

1 and forfeited 2 days' pay on August 27

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross II Class with Swords, with Privately-Commissioned Case consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac one depicting a burning village(Kriegsverdienstkreuz II. Klasse mit Schwertern und Etui). 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. 01 mm (w) x 49. 15 mm (h), weighing 19. 5 grams, accompanied by a period and privately