Talk:Iron Cross/@comment-68.83.103.36-20200112020152

My boss Colonel Clifford Simonson, the US Defense Attache in the American Embassy, Bonn, Germany in 1962 was the first US Army officer to be awarded the German Iron Cross by the German Chancellor Audenuer for his service during the Berlin Wall Crisis, an award that might not have been made had they been aware he was the operations officer on D-Day responsible for the Patton Ghost Army Deception that prompted Hitler to hold back his Panzers leading to the success of the Allied landings, an event held secret for 50 years.

Tony De Angelis