Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Torpedo Boat Crewman’s Cap Band Auction Archive GUTE DIENSTE” (“FOR LONG AND

GUTE DIENSTE” (“FOR LONG AND GOOD SERVICE”)

Above the upper right breast flap is an insignia in the form of a green wool patch bearing a detailed hand-embroidered gold bullion wire Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika

Purple Heart were displayed at the El Paso Cavalry Museum (now the El Paso Museum of History)

each trimmed with orange piping and bearing a single machine-embroidered silver aluminum wire tresse

placed in pairs over three rows

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Torpedo Boat Crewman’s Cap Band Auction Archive GUTE DIENSTE” (“FOR LONG AND(Torpedoboot Mtzenband). Constructed of black rayon with machine embroidered gold thread inscription reading 1. Torpedobootshalbflottille . 1., unmarked, measuring approximately 1145 mm in length, in extremely fine condition.