Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Auxiliary Cruiser War Badge Auction Archive An Infantry Badge

An Infantry Badge

1934 to Lieutenant Colonel

with dual blood grooves on either side of the blade

at which point he seized their machine gun and opened fire

and Poland

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Auxiliary Cruiser War Badge Auction Archive An Infantry Badge(Kriegsabzeichen fr Hilfskreuzer). Constructed of gilded and silvered feinzink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a swastika, around a detailed map of the Northern Hemisphere, topped by a Viking longship cutting through waves, the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with LDO