Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, Variation I, by Steinhauer & Lück Buy Now he received the Knight’s Cross

he received the Knight’s Cross on 9 May 1942

the reverse presents a principle pin assembly

Footnote: Willy (likely Wilhelm) Fritzsche was born on December 29

but he was released six months later

engraved "JOHN MALONEY" on the reverse

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A High Seas Fleet Badge, Variation I, by Steinhauer & Lück Buy Now he received the Knight’s Cross(Flottenkriegsabzeichen). 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 Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a frontal depiction of a battleship cutting through waves, the reverse with a crimped hinge and widening pin meeting a flat wire catch emanating from a circular base, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of a