Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, Lug Variant Auction when two black Sudanese NCO's

when two black Sudanese NCO's arrived with a letter addressed "To the Commandant of the European Expedition at Fashoda"

I walked a little way and I had a flashlight along with my camera in a pocket of my flying suit

The division moved to Croatia in September of 1942

Footnote: For an Observer Badge with similar qualities see Stephen Thomas Previtera’s Imperial Sky: Flight Badges of The Imperial German and Bavarian Armies (Richmond

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, Lug Variant Auction when two black Sudanese NCO's(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse with a central mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, unmarked, measuring