Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Silver Grade, By Friedrich Linden Archive along with bitter cold

along with bitter cold

taken on strength in the field on the 14th

1945 while piloting Spitfire IXb-MJ456 south of Schwerin)

With football medal

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Silver Grade, By Friedrich Linden Archive along with bitter cold(Nahkampfspange in Silber). With a central motif of a German mark 24 stick grenade crossed with a 98k carbine bayonet, which is surmounted by the army national emblem eagle clutching a swastika in its talons, the eagles wings appear to be sitting on a box created by six small oak leaves, adjacent to these oak leaves is ornate scrollwork which frames the sides of the central motif, extending outward from each side of the central motif are two ridged