Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, By Friedrich Linden GTRexclude obverse centre in white enamel

obverse centre in white enamel exhibiting figure of Juan Pablo Duarte

24 mm x 40

the two Japanese destroyers closed and engaged USS Asheville at close range with their guns

Footnote: The Order of Military Merit was instituted on July 4

reinforced and machine embroidered

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, By Friedrich Linden GTRexclude obverse centre in white enamel(Kriegsabzeichen der Marine Artillerie). 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, around a central depiction of a coastal artillery gun with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch,