Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Silver Grade GTRexclude Constructed of bright green doeskin

Constructed of bright green doeskin wool

including a cap badge

BeVo-style rayon bearing a machine-embroidered silver-grey Odal run

during which time it was equipped with 31 Tiger Tanks and posted with the 9th Army although 26 combat ready Tigers were whittled down to 6 over two days of battle due to Soviet anti-tank mines

217 mm x 278 mm

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Silver Grade GTRexclude Constructed of bright green doeskin(Nahkampfspange in Silber). Constructed of silvered feinzink, the obverse with a central Wehrmacht eagle clutching a mobile swastika, above a crossed bayonet and stick grenade, on top of a magnetic backplate, within a square oak leaf wreath, with sun rays emanating from the centre of the left and right sides, and with four oak leaves and two acorns on each side, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch,