Germany, Heer. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade, By Richard Simm & Söhne United Republic of With accompanying letter (209x147mm

With accompanying letter (209x147mm

women in the WAAC were first sent to the battlefields in France

1937 by the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery

repair evident in the blue enamels below the falcon's talons on the obverse

inscribed “DOE WEL EN ZIE NIET OM” (Latin - Do justice and don’t sway from it)

Germany, Heer. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade, By Richard Simm & Söhne United Republic of With accompanying letter (209x147mm(Infanterie Sturmabzeichen in Silber). Instituted 20. 12. 1939 by Generalfeldmarschall Walther von Braunitsch. (Issued 1939 1945). An oval shaped oak leaf wreath in silvered feinzink, with a national eagle clutching a swastika on the top and a bowtie on the bottom. 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 plain; with a vertical round