Seven Fallschirmjäger Postcards Newly Listed Military Merit Cross 2nd

Military Merit Cross 2nd

under the authority of P

circa 1850-60 period manufacture

With short length of neck ribbon

He was to be in ill health during much of his war service

Seven Fallschirmjäger Postcards Newly Listed Military Merit Cross 2ndSeven Fallschirmjger Postcards Six postcards are black and white (with action scenes, three tagged "Fallschirmjger", two tagged "Fotografie" on the obverse, 90 mm x 140 mm each; the other untagged on the obverse, 104 mm x 147 mm), the seventh postcard is sepia toned (seven paratroopers boarding an airplane with a verse entitled "Das Lied der Fallschirmjger" (The Song of the Paratrooper) below, 93 mm x 139 mm), unused, with address backers, extremely