Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, Variation 1, by Schwerin consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Staff of the General Command

Staff of the General Command of the 23rd Army Corps Congratulatory Document (congratulating Friessner upon his award of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves

(NSDAP Armbänder für Mitglieder)

was invalided to England

but heavy seas damaged her hull

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, Variation 1, by Schwerin consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Staff of the General Command(U Boot Kriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded tombak, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, overlaid by a central U Boat situated over a hollow void, the reverse with a block hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a rounded catch, maker marked SCHWERIN, BERLIN 68, measuring 48. 4 mm (w) x 38. 90 mm (h), weighing 26. 0 grams, most