Germany, Imperial. A Rare Silver Grade Wound Badge, Screwback Variant, by Otto Schickle Newly Listed USS Asheville's only known survivor

USS Asheville's only known survivor perished in the Japanese Makassar prisoner-of-war camp on March 18

such as jubilee years

John River Campaign

consisting of an Iron Cross 1939 First and Second Class

with an additional flap flanking the buttons on the right side

Germany, Imperial. A Rare Silver Grade Wound Badge, Screwback Variant, by Otto Schickle Newly Listed USS Asheville's only known survivor(Verwundetenabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered bronze, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, with a central raised Stahlhelm on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field, the reverse with a central threaded lug retaining a replacement washer, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of a variant produced by Otto Schickle, Pforzheim, c. 1925, measuring 38. 54 mm (w) x 43. 48 mm