Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Bronze Grade Newly Listed Above the right breast pocket

Above the right breast pocket is a machine applied dark khaki triangular cotton patch bearing the Luftwaffe eagle in gray embroidery

Kraas’s regiment was tasked with taking a strategically important hill near the town of Bykowka (Bykivka

Hauptmünzamt

which was completed in January 1939

Each belt has stylized bronze buckle for length adjustment and completes with a functional spring clip meeting the analogous loops on the dagger scabbard

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Bronze Grade Newly Listed Above the right breast pocket(Panzerkampfabzeichen in Bronze). Constructed of bronzed 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 missing its hinge, pinback, and clip, unmarked, measuring 41. 86 mm (w) x 59. 33 mm (h),