Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade Auction Archive The miracle of the rescue

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

consisting of a left and right collar tab

The I Class Grand Cross Grade was awarded to senior state officers and military personnel

a second portrait of a Heer NCO

was born on July 6

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade Auction Archive The miracle of the rescue(Infanterie Sturmabzeichen 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, diagonally across the badge is a Karabiner 98k rifle with the bayonet attached and the carrying sling hanging from the rifle, the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch,