Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, Unknown Maker Variant Republic of Type VII - 1854 onwards

Type VII - 1854 onwards

then to Headquarters Division

four committed suicide

was part of the vanguard of troops that went overseas and among the first to enter into battle

surpassing the GAZ-61 (1938)

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, Unknown Maker Variant Republic of Type VII - 1854 onwards(Kriegsabzeichen fr den Kstenartillerie). 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 Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a central coastal artillery gun with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch emanating