Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Bronze Grade United Republic of An Air Gunner Badge by

An Air Gunner Badge by W

Bernert’s wartime performance was particularly notable owing to his physical limitations in the form of a paralyzed arm resulting from injuries during his early wartime service as an infantryman

personalized inscriptions and text in handwritten black ink

and attached 16th Fighter Squadrons

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Panzer Assault Badge, Bronze Grade United Republic of An Air Gunner Badge by(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, around a central Panzer IV rolling over grassy terrain, with its left tread extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flattened and rounded catch, unmarked,