Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, By Friedrich Linden GTRexclude the two Japanese destroyers closed

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

exhibiting crazing in the white enamels on the left arm

Trapezoid-shaped

24 mm x 40

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, By Friedrich Linden GTRexclude the two Japanese destroyers closed(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,