Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge In Silver GTRexclude with independent crown and eagle

with independent crown and eagle

A third reich period Gau Aufmarsch Mecklenburg-Lübeck badge

silver with orange enamels

measures 61 mm (w) x 47 mm (h)

at the age of 86 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge In Silver GTRexclude with independent crown and eagle(Infanterie Sturmabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, topped by a German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika and joined together at the bottom by a bowtie ribbon, 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 vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch,