Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, Wiedmann Design Auction Archive scattered flaking otherwise the enamels

scattered flaking otherwise the enamels are intact

First Lieutenant Hawkins steadfastly carried the fight to the enemy

Wind and sea were rising

the two ends sewn together with brown thread

Just published by Croatian author Borna Barac who worked on this project for over five years

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, Wiedmann Design Auction Archive scattered flaking otherwise the enamels(U Boot Kriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded zink, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, with a central U Boat set across the badge on a hollow background, the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked but with the characteristics of manufacture by an