Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, Variation 4, by Schwerin visually-hidden from Bruchhausen-Vilsen (south of Bremen)

from Bruchhausen-Vilsen (south of Bremen)

Footnote: The Air Force Winged Leopard Medal was instituted on June 14

affixed to a 49 mm long pin

a miniature consisting of an eight-pointed star in silver

reverse with a paper disk printed in red and black inks pasted in place

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, Variation 4, by Schwerin visually-hidden from Bruchhausen-Vilsen (south of Bremen)(Flottenkriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded and silvered feinzink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a frontal depiction of a battleship cutting through waves, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flattened and rounded catch, designer marked ADOLF BOCK and maker marked SCHWERIN,