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Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class [3] 1st Class (27 February 1940) [3] [4] U-Boat War Badge (1939) (3 January 1940 – 30 April 1940) [3] Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. Knight's Cross on 24 September 1940 as Kapitänleutnant and commander of U-100 [5] [6] 7th Oak Leaves on 1 December 1940 as Kapitänleutnant and commander of U-100 ...
Ernst Barkmann (25 August 1919 – 27 June 2009) was a German tank commander in the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany during World War II.He is known for the actions undertaken at “Barkmann’s Corner", in which his unit halted a U.S. Army armoured advance in Normandy on 27 July 1944, for which he received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (German language: Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes) and its variants were the highest military awards in Nazi Germany.During or shortly after World War II, 457 German servicemen of the Waffen-SS, including volunteers from Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Hungary, Latvia, Netherlands, and Norway, received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
Iron Cross (1939) 2nd and 1st Class [3] Honor Goblet of the Luftwaffe (5 October 1940) [72] German Cross in Gold on 27 July 1942 as Hauptmann in the I./Jagdgeschwader 52 [73] Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 2 October 1942 as Hauptmann and Gruppenkommandeur of the I./Jagdgeschwader 52 [74] [75]
Iron Cross 2nd Class Infantry Assault Badge in Silver Werner Wrangel (24 March 1922 – 24 March 1945) was a Gefreiter in the German Army during World War II , who received three of Germany's highest military decorations during a single combat action.
War flag of Prussia (1816). The Black Cross (Schwarzes Kreuz) is the emblem used by the Prussian Army and Germany's army from 1871 to the present.It was designed on the occasion of the German Campaign of 1813, when Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia commissioned the Iron Cross as the first military decoration open to all ranks, including enlisted men.
Karl-Heinz Leesmann (3 May 1915 – 25 July 1943) was a Luftwaffe ace and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross during World War II. He was the first member of Jagdgeschwader 52 to receive this distinction. Leesmann was shot down on 25 July 1943, by a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber that he was attacking. During his career he was ...
Iron Cross (1939) 2nd and 1st Class [53] Honour Goblet of the Luftwaffe on 13 September 1942 as Leutnant and pilot [54] German Cross in Gold on 3 October 1942 as Leutnant in the II./Jagdgeschwader 77 [55] Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 15 October 1942 as Leutnant and pilot in the 6./Jagdgeschwader 77 [56] [57]