| IRONCROSS | German military decoration of yore |
| EPAULETTE | Military decoration of English girl in France (9) |
| DSO | Military decoration of the UK, init. |
| IRON | ___ Cross, highest German military decoration for bravery, instituted in 1813 (4) |
| OAKLEAFCLUSTER | US military decoration of bronze or silver awarded to anyone who has won a given medal before |
| OAKLEAF | And 23 US military decoration of bronze or silver awarded to anyone who has won a given medal before (3,4,7) |
| THEREDBARON | Nickname of WWI German military aviator Manfred von Richthofen, commander of 'The Flying Circus' (3,3,5) |
| GOOSESTEP | Gunk steeps disastrous march of the German military (9) |
| WHARTON | Author of novels including The Custom of the Country and The Age of Innocence and the nonfiction The Decoration of Houses (7) |
| SCHLIEFFEN | ___ Plan, German military strategy in the early days of World War I (10) |
| ABWEHR | The German military intelligence service from the early 1920s to the end of the Second World War (6) |
| ENIGMA | Mechanical encryption device patented by German engineer Arthur Scherbius in 1918, used by the German military before and during the Second World War (6) |
| UBOAT | German military submarine such as the Type VII-C of World War II, typically deployed in convoys known as wolfpacks (1-4) |
| STALAG | German military camp |
| GAGA | German military commander becomes distracted (4) |
| STAHLHELMIST | Old German military patriot still has them, surprisingly |
| POWDERY | Ground - one captured by the German military, finally |
| BERTHA | Big _____, German military weapon |
| UBER | "Gewehr ___!" (German military order) |
| TEUTONIC | ___ Knights, 13th-century German military order (8) |
