1 (C) Operational Training Unit on April 6
Footnote: This item was purchased from a local Canadian family
A NS-Hago (Nationalsozialistischer Kampfbund für den gewerblichen Mittelstand/National Socialist Fighting Alliance for the Commercial Middle Class) Breslau “Die tat der gemeinschaft dient dem aufbau
It rewards the high military or civil merits rendered in the Congo
by Guido Rosignoli
Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge Hold 1 (C) Operational Training Unit(Kriegsabzeichen fr Minensuch , U Boot Jagd und Sicherungsverbnde). 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, around a central depiction of a sea mine exploding, the reverse with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 43. 39 mm (w) x 54. 34 mm (h),