Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, By Adolf Schwerdt Hold (Militär-Sanitäts-Kreuz)

(Militär-Sanitäts-Kreuz)

For Führer and Fatherland: Political & Civil Awards of the Third Reich (San Jose: R

17 mm (w) x 21

also survived the war

measuring 49 mm x 20 mm

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, By Adolf Schwerdt Hold (Militär-Sanitäts-Kreuz)(Kriegsabzeichen fr Minensuch , U Boot Jagd und Sicherungsverbnde). Constructed of gilded zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, with a central depiction of a sea mine exploding, the reverse with a ball hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked with the logo of Adolf Schwerdt, Stuttgart, measuring 45. 06