Germany, Kriegsmarine. An S-Boat War Badge, Second Pattern, First Variation by Schwerin Archive Jahnke then went on to

Jahnke then went on to lead a platoon of the 3rd Company in the 1st Battalion of Grenadier Regiment 919

the Balkans

encompassed by a bronze border inscribed with “DER DEUTCHEN MUTTER” (TO THE GERMAN MOTHER)

the insignia in fine aluminum wire with black and steel blue embroidery

10 mm (w) x 55

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An S-Boat War Badge, Second Pattern, First Variation by Schwerin Archive Jahnke then went on to(Schnellbootkriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded and silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a cut out mobile swastika, surrounding a central S Boat cutting through waves, with its bow extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering horizontal pinback meeting a flat wire catch emanating from a circular