Germany, Third Reich. A Kriegsmarine High Seas Fleet Badge, Unmarked by Steinhauer & Lück, Variant I Newly Listed Juni 1917 abgeschossen" (RIP /

Juni 1917 abgeschossen" (RIP / Corporal Erich Richter / Field Pilot of K

(King Juan Carlos

Type II (1951-on)

with a Luftwaffe gray wool backer

Volume II is the second of four volumes covering the following states: Denmark through Germany (up to Saxony)

Germany, Third Reich. A Kriegsmarine High Seas Fleet Badge, Unmarked by Steinhauer & Lück, Variant I Newly Listed Juni 1917 abgeschossen" (RIP /(Flottenkriegsabzeichen). Instituted in April 1941. Constructed of gilded and silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the base by a ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a frontal depiction of a battleship cutting through waves, the reverse with a raised sheet metal hinge, with a slightly tapered vertical pinback, and a flat stamped catch, an unmarked example but