Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Bronze Grade, by Hermann Aurich Newly Listed Canadian Reserve Artillery

Canadian Reserve Artillery

in white machine embroidery on a black cotton backer

with swivel attachment claws

including the Gulf of Tonkin incident which precipitated increased American involvement

Footnote: Bernard was 25 years of age at the starting point of the diary

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Bronze Grade, by Hermann Aurich Newly Listed Canadian Reserve Artillery(Panzerkampfabzeichen in Bronze). Constructed of bronzed zink, 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, surrounding a central Panzer IV rolling over grassy terrain, with its left tread extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked