German Army Combat Engineers Signals Personnel Trade Badge Patch

The post-1940 pattern Combat Engineers Signals trade badge is in the form of a roughly, 60mm tall, 40mm wide, vertically oval, feldgrau badge wool base with a central, machine embroidered, downward pointing, blitz arrow in black threads outlinedin white. The blitz arrow stands out in nice high relief. Uniform removed with some slight mothing.

The German Army (German: Heer; lit. ’army’) was the land forces component of the Wehrmacht, the regular armed forces of Nazi Germany, from 1935 until it effectively ceased to exist in 1945 and then was formally dissolved in August 1946. During World War II, a total of about 13.6 million soldiers served in the German Army. Army personnel were made up of volunteers and conscripts.