Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Bronze Grade, With Award Documents Archive 123 (silvered bronze with light

123 (silvered bronze with light blue

completing at the front in a multi-piece protruding visor

went out between the lines and secured and recovered entrenching tools that had been abandoned in rifle pits between the skirmish lines in front of the V Corps

He saw action in Russia

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Bronze Grade, With Award Documents Archive 123 (silvered bronze with light(Panzerkampfabzeichen in Bronze mit Verleihungsurkunde). Constructed of bronzed zink, 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, around a central Panzer IV rolling over grassy terrain, with its left tread extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with an oval crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire