Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Destroyer War Badge, By Schwerin Archive 473 (26/9/1942)

473 (26/9/1942)

obverse illustrating The Life of Alberta Award insignia in the centre

Upon further investigation

circumscribed “Dem Deutschen Soldaten ist nichts unmöglich” (Nothing is impossible for the German soldier)

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Destroyer War Badge, By Schwerin Archive 473 (26/9/1942)(Zestrerkriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded and silvered feinzink, consisting of an oak leaf wreath with a German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika at the top, depicting a side view of a destroyer cutting through a wave, with the bow of the ship extending over the wreath, reverse presents plain with a centre catch for stabilization, with a barrel hinge and horizontal tapering pinback meeting a flat wire catch, maker marked Schwerin,