Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, by Förster & Barth GTRexclude an Army Senior Parachutist Badge

an Army Senior Parachutist Badge (silver

Naming is officialy impressed

Footnote: This firm is currently unidentified as to who they are

The elasticized straps at either end have leather tabs stitched in place

1944 Gehlken joined the 2nd Company of Landesschützen Training Battalion I/10 in Wolterdingen

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, by Förster & Barth GTRexclude an Army Senior Parachutist Badge(U Boot Kriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded feinzink, 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 tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture by Frster & Barth, Pforzheim,