ORIGINAL WORLD WAR TWO ERA German NAVY KREIGSMARINE ENLISTED TRADE RATE PATCH INSIGNIA.
EMBROIDERED RED ON White WITHOUT A FINISHED BORDER. THIS IS NOT A COPY OR A REPLICA. IT DATES FROM THE PERIOD AND CAME MANY YEARS AGO FROM A WW2 VETERAN WHO BROUGHT IT HOME AS A WAR TROPHY. SHOWS HONEST AGE WITH SOME AGE DISCOLORATION, BUT STILL IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. MEASURES ABOUT 3 1/2 INCHES FROM TOP TO BOTTOM. THIS WILL MAKE A SUPERB ADDITION TO YOUR COLLECTION.
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WIKIPEDIA: The Kriegsmarine was the navy of Germany from 1935 to 1945. It superseded the Imperial German Navy of the German Empire (1871–1918) and the inter-war Reichsmarine (1919–1935) of the Weimar Republic. The Kriegsmarine was one of three official branches, along with the Heer (Army) and the Luftwaffe (Air Force), of the Wehrmacht, the armed forces of National Socialist-controlled Germany from 1933 to 1945. The Kriegsmarine's most famous ships were the U-boats, most of which were constructed after Plan Z was abandoned at the beginning of World War II. Wolfpacks were rapidly assembled groups of submarines which attacked British convoys during the first half of the Battle of the Atlantic but this tactic was largely abandoned by May 1943. Along with the U-boats, surface commerce raiders (including auxiliary cruisers) were used to disrupt Allied shipping in the early years of the war, the most famous of these being the heavy cruisers Admiral Graf Spee and Admiral Scheer and the battleship Bismarck. However, the adoption of convoy escorts, especially in the Atlantic, greatly reduced the effectiveness of surface commerce raiders against convoys. After the Second World War in 1945, the Kriegsmarine's remaining ships were divided up amongst the Allied powers and were used for various purposes including minesweeping.

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