Germany, Third Reich. A Kriegsmarine Issue Kuban Campaign Shield Buy Now Merit Badge

Merit Badge

January 21

Army Headquarters

cockade in silvered zinc with a black painted base and red wool centre

one of a woman wading in water

Germany, Third Reich. A Kriegsmarine Issue Kuban Campaign Shield Buy Now Merit Badge(Kubanschild der Kriegsmarine). Instituted September 21st, 1943. (1943 1944 issue). Constructed of bronzed magnetic metal, the obverse consisting of a shield bearing a stylized map of the Kuban region, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, flanked by a date of 1943, affixed with all four reverse attachment prongs to a non magnetic metal backplate with a fully intact black paper backer and dark blue wool backer, unmarked,