Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By C.f. Zimmermann Hold The 32nd Infantry Battalion "Manitoba

The 32nd Infantry Battalion "Manitoba and Saskatchewan Regiment" was raised in Manitoba and Saskatchewan with mobilization headquarters at Winnipeg

1945 and the subsequent occupation of Sasmbo

replacement ribbon with hook and eye

in addition to eight men killed during this attack

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By C.f. Zimmermann Hold The 32nd Infantry Battalion "Manitoba(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse with a central mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked with LDO code L 52 for C. F.