Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, by C.E. Juncker visually-hidden a civilian pilot’s pin

a civilian pilot’s pin

circumscribed “Nescit Occasum” (It knows no Decline)

Signature on Post War Photo: Karl-Heinz Wallhauser

1 Division Rest Station wounded on July 26

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Coastal Artillery War Badge, by C.E. Juncker visually-hidden a civilian pilot’s pin(Kriegsabzeichen fr die Marineartillerie). 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, surrounding a coastal artillery gun with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch emanating from a