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2 unusual facts about Wound Badge


Wound Badge

While Field Marshal Keitel and Colonel-General Jodl for example did wear their 20 July wound badges on their tunics, other recipients preferred to wear their regular wound badges.

Wound Medal

In addition, other countries have or have had military decorations for wounded servicemembers under other names, such as the United States Purple Heart, the German Wound Badge of World War I and World War II, the Japanese Wound Badges (Shoigunjinsho) and the Jordanian Badge for the War Wounded.


Hans Juchem

He also took part in the Western Campaign in June 1940 and was involved in fighting at Vlissingen in the Netherlands, Cassel, the Marne and in Orléans in France where he was wounded for the first time and awarded the Wound Badge.

Oskar Wolkerstorfer

On the same day he also received the Wound Badge in Silver for a wound received on 24 November 1941, when he was shot in the stomach while removing explosives from a bridge near Istra.

Otto Hitzfeld

Wounded for the fifth time on 15 August 1942 near Krasnodar, he received the Wound Badge in Gold by the End of the War.


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