Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade Newly Listed 3rd Version - White metal

3rd Version - White metal

so it was vulnerable to modern warfare weapons of its time such as aircraft and artillery

with the Battalion arriving on the front line in Belgium shortly thereafter

black-enamelled Iron Cross pendant suspended from an Imperial crown superimposed over crossed sabres

Very light contact on the buckle

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade Newly Listed 3rd Version - White metal(Infanterie Sturmabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, tied together at the bottom by a bowtie ribbon and topped by a German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, diagonally across the badge is a Karabiner 98k with the bayonet attached to the front of the barrel and the carrying sling hanging from the rifle, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire