Germany, SS. A Waffen-SS Marksmanship Badge, II Class Newly Listed with a German national eagle

with a German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika on the top and a bowtie on the bottom

Japan’s elite Red Dragon Armored Division approached the last barrier to China’s back door: the mile deep Salween River gorge

with minor flecking and tarnishing visible to the enamels and gilt

the reverse bearing a handwritten date of “AUGUST 1943”

/Flakregiment 26

Germany, SS. A Waffen-SS Marksmanship Badge, II Class Newly Listed with a German national eagle(Waffen SS Schtzenabzeichen, II. Klasse). Constructed of silvered cupal, the obverse consisting of a central target composed of a bullseye surrounded by four rings, inside of an oak leaf wreath, with the double Sig runes of the SS at the bottom, the reverse marked with the SS insignia and GES. GESCH. (PROTECTED BY LAW), measuring 34. 36 mm (w) x 33. 51 mm (h), weighing 4. 8 grams, the badge is missing its vertical pinback apparatus, otherwise in near