Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Kriegsmarine Minesweeper Badge By F.w. Assmann & Söhne certificate_of_authenticity A Spanish Cross with Swords

A Spanish Cross with Swords by Otto Schickle

Andrew Richard Butson

he received the Oak Leaves as well

for the "plucking" of Captain Gibbons was that he had "added absolutely nothing to the efficiency of the Navy

Seventeen months later

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Kriegsmarine Minesweeper Badge By F.w. Assmann & Söhne certificate_of_authenticity A Spanish Cross with Swords(Kriegsabzeichen fr Minensuch, U Boot Jagd, und Sicherungsverbnde). Instituted on 31 August 1940 by Supreme Commander Erich Raeder. Constructed of gilded tombak, the Minesweeper War Badge consists of a gilded, oval oak leaf wreath, each side having an outer margin of seven oak leaves pointing upward, at the bottom is a stylized bow holding the wreath together, within the lower third of the wreath lies a calm water surface with narrowly spaced