Germany, Third Reich. A Mixed Lot of Awards for Military and Civil Service Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic constructed of a black rayon

constructed of a black rayon base with brown and silver aluminum wire machine embroidery

His photography experience would aid him in his career in the Air Force

the exterior bearing a maker’s mark of “RICHARD SIMM & SÖHNE

1946 at London

Germany, Third Reich. A Mixed Lot of Awards for Military and Civil Service Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic constructed of a black rayon(Auszeichnungen). A mixed lot of awards, including: 1. A War Merit Medal, constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Maltese Cross with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing an inscription of FR KRIEGSVERDIENST 1939 (FOR WAR MERIT 1939), unmarked, measuring 32. 19 mm in diameter, weighing 12. 8 grams, in near mint condition. 2. A 1939 Iron Cross II