Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, By B.h. Mayer Auction Archive and 782nd Military Police Battalion

and 782nd Military Police Battalion (bronze gilt with red

one with matte finish

each constructed of cardboard-reinforced white wool and bearing four bands of silver aluminum wire piping

Silver gilt with with red

He was granted leave from the 2nd Battalion

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, By B.h. Mayer Auction Archive and 782nd Military Police Battalion(U Boot Kriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded tombak, 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 set over a hollow background, the reverse with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flattened catch, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of a design most commonly accredited to B. H. Mayer,