Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Korvettenkapitän Otto Kretschmer Wartime Postcard Archive a HJ Enlisted buckle

a HJ Enlisted buckle

measuring 30 mm x 35 mm

East Indies Fleet

It is marked in handwritten red ink "43" in two places

32nd Sikh Pioneers) Naming is officially engraved in italic script

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Korvettenkapitän Otto Kretschmer Wartime Postcard Archive a HJ Enlisted buckle(Kriegsmarine Postkarte). A wartime postcard depicting Korvettenkapitn Otto Kretschmer, the top U Boat ace of the war who sunk 47 Allied ships between September 1939 and March 1941 for a total of 274,333 gross register tons, in uniform and with the Knights Cross with Oak Leaves clearly visible, the reverse unused in with a Hoffmann studio mark, measuring 90 mm (w) x 140 mm (h), in extremely fine condition.