Germany, Kriegsmarine. An S-Boat War Badge, Second Pattern, by Schwerin Province of China (Bewährungsabzeichen zum Kriegsverdienstkreuz 2

(Bewährungsabzeichen zum Kriegsverdienstkreuz 2

circa 1970-80 period manufacture

Originally gifted from the parents of Gefreiter Karl Heinz Wedekind

J 8 (Gloucester Gladiator)

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An S-Boat War Badge, Second Pattern, by Schwerin Province of China (Bewährungsabzeichen zum Kriegsverdienstkreuz 2(Schnellbootkriegsabzeichen 2. Form). 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 mobile swastika, around a central depiction of an S Boat cutting through waves and with its bow extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a barrel hinge and horizontal banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, topped by