Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, Gold Grade, By The Vienna Mint Hold serving with the 2nd Divisional

serving with the 2nd Divisional Engineers

Spikenard may have become aware of U-136 in the few minutes before

the two lenses join across the bridge of the goggles by a small brown leather linking the two eye pieces together

The Luftnachrichten-Abteilung 138 was formed in April of 1942 in Smolensk

with the motto "Pretium Laborum Non Vile" ("No Mean Reward for Labours") engraved on the front of the central link

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, Gold Grade, By The Vienna Mint Hold serving with the 2nd Divisional(Verwundetenabzeichen in Gold). Constructed of gilded tombak, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, with a central Stahlhelm overlaid by a mobile swastika, on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field, the reverse with a vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 30 for the Vienna Mint, measuring 36. 2 mm (w) x 43. 7 mm (h), worn example, in very fine condition.