Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Destroyer War Badge, by Josef Feix & Sons Archive the bottom bearing a sickle

the bottom bearing a sickle and hammer

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where he would recuperate for the next month

naming on BWM is inverted with second initial on "J" incorrect (should be "G")

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Destroyer War Badge, by Josef Feix & Sons Archive the bottom bearing a sickle(Zerstrerkriegsabzeichen). Instituted June 4th, 1940. (mid to late war manufacture). A textbook example by this maker, constructed of gilded and silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a central depiction of a destroyer cutting through waves, the reverse with a crimped ball hinge, straight horizontal