Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Sterling silver with blue enamels

Sterling silver with blue enamels

Rothwell was posted to the United States Army Pacific on January 11

each bearing four bands of silver aluminum wire piping interspersed with green threaded chevrons and pinned with zink Reichsfinanzverwaltung cyphers

residue evident on the obverse of the WM

four holes for uniform attachment

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Sterling silver with blue enamels(U Boot Kriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded zink, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, overlaid by a central U Boat situated over a hollow void, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture by a documented but unidentified