(Das Sonderabzeichen für das Niederkämpfen von Panzer-kampfwagen durch Einzelkämpfer)

Date Instituted

9 March 1942 (Silver) & 18 December 1943 (Gold)

Requirements

Silver
* Having single handedly destroyed an enemy tank using a hand held weapon.


Gold
* Having single handedly destroyed five enemy tanks using a hand held weapon.

Number Awarded

?

Recipients

Holders of the Tank Destruction Badge

Estimated price (2009)

Gold - €2.000
Silver - €540

Hauptmann Urbano Gomez Garcia

(Courtesy of Ignasi Masip)

Hauptmann Bodo Spranz

(Courtesy of Paal Waland)

SS-Untersturmführer Adolf Peichl with one badge in gold and one is silver

(Courtesy of Dave)

A Großdeutschland soldier being awarded the Tank Destruction Badge 1944

(Courtesy of Bundesarchiv/Wikimedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 Germany)

Comments

This award was not given to anti-tanks troops.

Photo courtesy of The Ruptured Duck

Sources used

Christopher Ailsby - World War 2 German medals and political awards
John R. Angolia - For Führer and Fatherland: Military awards of the Third Reich
Thomas Breyette & Roger James Bender - Tank Killers: History of the Tank Destruction Badge
David Littlejohn - Orders, decorations, medals and badges of the Third Reich
Detlev Niemann - Price Guide Germany 1871-1945 (2009)

Reference material on this award

Thomas Breyette & Roger James Bender - Tank Killers: History of the Tank Destruction Badge
Neil G Stewart & Timothy J Curley - Bulls-Eye: German Army Markmanship Lanyards and Tank Destruction Badges