Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, With Case, By Wilhelm Deumer Auction Arras and Cambrai

Arras and Cambrai

he flew 820 missions in which he is credited with the destruction of eighty-eight tanks

measuring 41 mm (w- across eagle) x 90 mm (h - inclusive of swivel crown with horizontally pierced ball suspension with cross)

- 1939-1945 Star

Marianas Islands

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, With Case, By Wilhelm Deumer Auction Arras and Cambrai(Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz mit Etui). Constructed of blackened bronze, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, with a central raised Stahlhelm overlaid by a mobile swastika, on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field, the reverse with an integral hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked with LDO code L 11 for Wilhelm Deumer, Ldenscheid, measuring 36. 66 mm (w) x