Germany, Heer. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade Auction Archive / The torch ye threw

/ The torch ye threw to us we have caught

Constructed of fine golden-yellow embroidery on a Kriegsmarine blue backer

was sent to the French theatre on July 31

illustrating Pflugbeil in uniform wearing his Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross around his neck (before he received the Oak Leaves)

1948 in Ottawa

Germany, Heer. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade Auction Archive / The torch ye threw(Infanterie Sturmabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered feinzink, presenting as an oval oak leaf wreath, with a German national eagle clutching a mobile 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 barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked,