Germany, Kriegsmarine. An E-Boat War Badge, Second Pattern, By Rudolf Souval Auction Archive it was re-equipped with Vickers

it was re-equipped with Vickers Wellington bombers

maker marked “RZM M1/25” for “Rudolf Reiling of Pforzheim” on the reverse

copyrighted by OMSA in 2005

He abdicated on February 12

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An E-Boat War Badge, Second Pattern, By Rudolf Souval Auction Archive it was re-equipped with Vickers(Schnellboot Kriegsabzeichen, 2. Form). 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 Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, around a central depiction of a Kriegsmarine torpedo boat cutting through waves, with its bow extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire