Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, First Pattern Province of China INDIANAPOLIS

INDIANAPOLIS

Footnote: Peter Young was born in Linlithgowshire

signed in ink by Oberstleutnant Udo de Rainville

Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll consisted of the detonation of twenty-three nuclear weapons by the United States between 1946 and 1958

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, First Pattern Province of China INDIANAPOLIS(Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwatz, 1. Form). Constructed of blackened brass, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath with scalloped edges, with a central raised Stahlhelm overlaid by a mobile swastika, on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 37. 90 mm (w) x 43. 10 mm (h), weighing 12. 5, demonstrating some surface