Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Silver Grade, By F.w. Assmann & Söhne Archive KLASSE MIT SCHWERTERN” (“WAR MERIT

KLASSE MIT SCHWERTERN” (“WAR MERIT CROSS 2ND CLASS WITH SWORDS”)

Badge of Chaplain to the King

The miracle of the rescue was in finding the small hole in the crevasse bridge in a glacier six miles by eight miles in the dark of Antarctic night

Instituted 11 November 1895 by Grand Duke Friedrich I

three rows of embroidered blue rank striping

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Silver Grade, By F.w. Assmann & Söhne Archive KLASSE MIT SCHWERTERN” (“WAR MERIT(Panzerkampfabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered feinzink, 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, overlaid by a Panzerkampfwagen IV on grassy ground with its left tread extending beyond the wreath, the reverse with a raised crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked with the logo of F.