Medal Components Recovered From The Destroyed Zimmermann Factory certificate_of_authenticity This particular buckle is illustrated

This particular buckle is illustrated on page 511 of "Belt Buckles & Brocades of the Third Reich

Class 1914-1918 (Military Merit Cross for Courage) -  in bronze

While hospitalized in England

In November of 1940 he was promoted to Junior Corporal (Oberrottenfuerher

the CATF was disbanded and replaced by the Fourteenth Air Force

Medal Components Recovered From The Destroyed Zimmermann Factory certificate_of_authenticity This particular buckle is illustratedIncludes various dies ad insignia, in bronze or silver. Fire damaged, fair. Footnote: Zimmermann was a well known German manufacturer of a great variety of awards, German and International, and was destroyed in an allied bombing raid in the early 1940's on Pforzheim, Germany. Sometime in 1990, during construction on the site, a quantity of medals was discovered (about 50 kilos) and bought by eMedals. Some were in good condition, but most of the pieces