A German-Italian Africa Campaign Medal Zimmermann First Strike Buy Now Heinz Schmitter: Iron cross 2nd

Heinz Schmitter: Iron cross 2nd

Ontario prior to enlisting in the RCAF in March 1940

reprinted from Maclean's Magazine with additions

Battalion in the field on the 24th

(Richard Sieper & Sohne) with leather tab also marked and dated 1942

A German-Italian Africa Campaign Medal Zimmermann First Strike Buy Now Heinz Schmitter: Iron cross 2ndBronze, obverse and reverse are independent of one another, obverse is 42 mm x 43 mm, reverse is 40. 8 mm x 42 mm, very fine. 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.