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Help! with This medal WW2

Not Aviation related but can you help!

Can you point me in the right Direction?
What is this Medal, why was it awarded and is there a way of finding out the recipient of the medal
In the second picture the numbers 128 are to be seen stamped into the ring attached to the medal will this help.
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By: steve_p - 27th August 2007 at 19:31

Always amazes me, is there nothing we can not find out on this forum!:D

The location of the Chinese Stirling?:D

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By: Alex Crawford - 27th August 2007 at 19:01

If I remember correctly the medal was not worn, only the ribbon and usually through a button hole on the tunic.

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By: schanche - 27th August 2007 at 18:38

Thanks guys for the response!
Always amazes me, is there nothing we can not find out on this forum!:D

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By: Arabella-Cox - 27th August 2007 at 07:56

Not Aviation related but can you help!

Can you point me in the right Direction?
What is this Medal, why was it awarded and is there a way of finding out the recipient of the medal
In the second picture the numbers 128 are to be seen stamped into the ring attached to the medal will this help.
Thanks Again

Yes, Iron Cross 2nd Class, or EKII. The number 128 indicates the maker, in this case S.Jablonski GmbH of Posen.

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By: Malcolm McKay - 27th August 2007 at 06:34

Not Aviation related but can you help!

Can you point me in the right Direction?
What is this Medal, why was it awarded and is there a way of finding out the recipient of the medal
In the second picture the numbers 128 are to be seen stamped into the ring attached to the medal will this help.
Thanks Again

If the loop has a number on it this site http://www.wehrmacht-awards.com/iron_cross/ironcrossmain.htm may tell you who made it.

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By: Colaga - 26th August 2007 at 23:00

i’m no real expert, but that’s either an Iron cross 2nd class, or the dangly bit of a knights cross… 2nd world war though for sure, & german…
over to the more informed gentlemen of the forum…..

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