Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade GTRexclude issued on 20 October 1942

issued on 20 October 1942

Footnote: During the Napoleonic era (1795 – 1814) Naarden was captured without a fight by the French General MacDonald

with extensive bubbling on the reverse

the Fatherland Cross 1939-1945 (bronze

measuring 80 mm x 73 mm

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade GTRexclude issued on 20 October 1942(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