An Army (Heer) M43 Tropical Tunic Auction to New York City

to New York City

Award document for the Hohenzollern Honor Cross Third Class

Footnote: Ferdinand Schörner (1892-1973) was a Feldmarschall of the Wehrmacht

As the Second World War wound down

An Army (Heer) M43 Tropical Tunic Auction to New York CityFabricated from an olive green cotton, the shoulders with narrow straps along the outside edge and silvered metal buttons with pebbled uppers that are sewn in place mid way between the neck and shoulder, for the placement of shoulder straps that have been lost to time, the buttons maker marked "G. G." on the reverse, as are all the buttons on the exterior of tunic. The collars are adorned with machine applied tropical collar tabs in gray and brown