Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade Hold in Argentina in 1960

in Argentina in 1960

1925 and Honorary Lieutenant Colonel

maker marked "93" (Richard Simm & Sohne

Awarded to officers for outstanding military merit

seventeen days shy of his twenty-fifth birthday

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade Hold in Argentina in 1960(Infanterie Sturmabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, tied together at the bottom by a bowtie ribbon and topped by a 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 wire