Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint Panzer Assault Badge, Silver Grade Archive a Medal for 40 Years

a Medal for 40 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945

Lieutenant Pinguet of the Canadian Fencibles later related "All our men fired from thirty-five to forty rounds so well aimed that the prisoners told us next day that every shot seem to pass at about the height of a man's breast or head

contact marks and surface wear evident on the reverse

1917 but managed to bring his machine back 20 miles to his airfield

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Mint Panzer Assault Badge, Silver Grade Archive a Medal for 40 Years(Panzerkampfabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered tombak, 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 a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 41.