Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery Badge, By Hermann Aurich Auction Archive Two NSD FBSt Pins

Two NSD FBSt Pins

The obverse blade is acid-engraved "Zur Erinnerung an meine Dienstzeit" (“In Memory of My Service Period”) inside a banner flanked on both sides by oak leaf branches and Wehrmacht- (Armed Forces) style German national eagles clutching mobile swastikas

the reverse presents the crowned monogram “FWR III” (“FRIEDRICH WILHELM REX III”)

The division was transferred to Yugoslavia on May 8

Footnote: Generalfeldmarschall Erhard Milch (30 March 1892 – 25 January 1972) was a German field marshal who oversaw the development of the Luftwaffe as part of the re-armament of Nazi Germany following World War I

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery Badge, By Hermann Aurich Auction Archive Two NSD FBSt Pins(Kriegsabzeichen fr die Marine Artillerie). Constructed of gilded and patinated feinzink, 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, with a central coastal artillery gun and background waves, the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked with the logo of Hermann Aurich,