Germany, Third Reich. A U-Boat War Badge, By Friedrich Orth, Variation Two Archive complete with Army cloth backing

complete with Army cloth backing

along with a Vienna Assay mark

The incident is recorded in the unit's history: "As the first shell burst we stopped drinking coffee

Stamped bronze

Germany, Third Reich. A U-Boat War Badge, By Friedrich Orth, Variation Two Archive complete with Army cloth backing(U Boot Kriegsabzeichen). Re instituted on October 13, 1939. (Issued 1939 1945). An oval laurel wreath constructed of gilded zink, tied together at the base via a ribbon, with a national eagle placed on top of the badge clutching a mobile swastika, and a submarine in the center of the badge, the reverse plain, with a horizontal needle style pinback, a sheet metal hinge, and a round wire catch, marked f. o for Friedrich Orth on the reverse, but also