Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade, by B.H. Mayer Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic Footnote: The Medal for Distinction

Footnote: The Medal for Distinction in Protecting the State Border of the USSR was established by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on July 13

An immense dust and smoke from the stones and crumpled clay rose up and an instant after a crowd of men

We marched mostly at night

(Insignien der kroatischen Freiwilligen in der Wehrmacht und Waffen-SS)

16 mm (w) x 62

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade, by B.H. Mayer Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic Footnote: The Medal for Distinction(Infanterie Sturmabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered tombak, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, diagonally across the badge is a Karabiner 98k rifle with the bayonet attached and the carrying sling hanging from the rifle, the reverse with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked