A Weimar-era veterans sleeve patch depicting the Nordmark regional coat of arms and Frisian-language motto “lewer dod as slov” (“better dead than a slave”)
creme coloured velvet medal bed
A small American plane flew overhead and dropped a package of Camel cigarettes around a paper informing them that a peace treaty would be signed aboard the USS Missouri the next day at 1400 hours
old ribbons
France and Germany Star (both stars have been plated by the recipient)
Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, by E. Ferdinand Wiedmann Auction Archive A Weimar-era veterans sleeve patch(U Boot Kriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded zink, 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 crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch emanating from a circular base, maker marked with the logo of E. Ferdinand Wiedmann, Frankfurt, measuring
