Golden Party Badge (30 mm) Deschler und Sohn Wirthstaβe 9, München

By Sebastián Bianchi he Infantry Combat Badge, more commonly referred to as the Infantry Assault Badge, was designed by C. E. Junker of Berlin and instituted on December 20, 1939 by Generaloberst von Brauchitsch. The initial class was instituted in silver and decorated foot infantry who participated in combat action earning a degree of experience that qualified them for the badge. A separate ...

The Cholm Shield was instituted on 1st July 1942 and was to reward all the persons who where honorably involved in the battle of Cholm . It was the second campaign shield instituted in German military history and is the rarest among these officially instituted campaign shields, with only about 5,500 awarded. The original decree for the newly instituted award was published in the ...

Below: NSFK gruppenführer von Bülow Bruno Loerzer (above and below) Above: Bomber pilot Gerhard Krems was awarded the Ritterkreuz on 25.5.42 whilst serving with 2./KG27 "Boelcke". Pberleutnant Krems' other awards include: EK2 - 21/10/40 EK1 - 11/12/40 Bomber Clasp bronze - 22/4/41 Black wound badge - 30/06/41 Bomber Clasp silver - 25/7/41

footnotes - 1-Da verificare inquanto esistono medaglie di altristati con lo stesso colore/ to be verified, because there are several medalsof other German states with such ribbons). Per esempio/For example:Volksstaat Hessen, Feuerwehr-Ehrenkreuz, 1935-38 für Feuerwehrmänner .Oppure/or: Feuerwehr-Ehrenzeichen für 40 -Jährige Dienstzeit, Medaille,1920-22. Oppure/Or :Reuss-Altere und jüngere ...

SStudio portrait of a former Army paratrooper (now member of II./FJR1) taken at "Gordon Studios" in Den Haag (where II./FJR 1 were quartered in private houses right after the taking of the rail and road bridges at Moerdijk, on May 10, 1940) This photo is dated May 30th, 1940 (Mei 30, 1940) and was taken a short time after the Iron Crosses were ...

By Jacques Calero and Sebastian Bianchi The Air Radio Operator & Air Gunner badge was instituted on January 19, 1935 and dedicated at first (before the institution of the gunner badge) to radio and gunner qualified personnel. Personnel had to success the training course and to participate at least at 5 operational flights. Mark Miller Collection Manufacturing and Technical Information The ...

David A. Suter for Wehrmacht-Awards.com NUMBERS As will be obvious from the examples below, there was a great variation in the style of Arabic numbers used, regardless of whether they were embroidered or metal. Some of the hand-embroidered enlisted shoulder straps are almost works of art. In most cases, Arabic numbers indicate a regiment or independent battalion, with the branch determined by ...

Remarks: The featured Spange is made of zinc. Note the over-filed beak, often seen on Deumers. The shorter top wing feather is a standard characteristic of Spangen by this maker.

The award was recieved for an action on September 30, 1942, where Podobnik and 18 of his men infiltrated a fortified Soviet position in the “Red October” factory, destroyed the defenders (even though the Russians outnumbered them), and handed over the occupied building to the 54th German Regiment (that had been unsuccessfully attacking this ...