Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Bronze Grade, By Friedrich Linden Hold Ordinary Seaman and Able Seaman

Ordinary Seaman and Able Seaman

USS Louisville helped to sink the bow section of the Japanese battleship Fusō

A 1938 Nordmark Treffen badge (28-29

A certificate for participation in a course of the Profession Education Department (Berufserziehungswerk) of the German Labour Front (Deutsche Arbeitsfront)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Bronze Grade, By Friedrich Linden Hold Ordinary Seaman and Able Seaman(Nahkampfspange in Bronze). Constructed of bronzed zink, the obverse with a central Wehrmacht eagle clutching a mobile swastika, above a bayonet and stick grenade, within a square oak leaf wreath, with sun rays emanating from the centre of the left and right sides, and with four oak leaves and two acorns on each side, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, with a magnetic metal centerpiece backer, the