Germany, Third Reich. A Fire Service Decoration, II. Class Cross, c. 1940 Hold and black enamels with sun

and black enamels with sun rays emanating between the arms from the centre applique

Sherman was granted fourteen days leave in the United Kingdom

but the gun had already loaded on the man's shoulders when I got back from fetching the second one moreover

(Kriegsmarine Bild)

99 mm x 48

Germany, Third Reich. A Fire Service Decoration, II. Class Cross, c. 1940 Hold and black enamels with sun(Feuerwehrehrenzeichen). Instituted June 22nd, 1936. Two piece construction in silvered bronze, white, black, and red enamels, with a band in the quadrants between the arms of the cross inscribed with Fr Verdienste im Feuerlschwesen (For Merit in Fire Fighting) in capitalised German lettering, the obverse with a white enamelled Greek cross bearing red enamelled flames on all arms of the cross with a central medallion bearing a mobile black enamelled