Germany, Heer. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade Archive and death-defying soldiers

and death-defying soldiers

maker marked "DESCHLER & SOHN MUNCHEN 9

with a single shallow flake in the white enamels

dated 4 December 1940

with Hoch und Deutschmeister-Kreutz

Germany, Heer. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade Archive and death-defying soldiers(Infanterie Sturmabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, tied together at the bottom by a ribbon and topped by a Heer style 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