Germany, Third Reich. A Minesweeper War Badge, by Disputed Maker Lind & Meyrer, c. 1944 Republic of Mounted as originally worn German

Mounted as originally worn German style: Iron Cross Second Class 1914

and bearing red hand-embroidered numerals “362”

and Ferdinand Maurice Felix West (original signature of "FMF West Air C" in blue ink on a printed page

In the Niagara Falls Review

Air Weapons Control

Germany, Third Reich. A Minesweeper War Badge, by Disputed Maker Lind & Meyrer, c. 1944 Republic of Mounted as originally worn German(Kriegsabzeichen fr Minensuch , U Boot Jagd und Sicherungsverbnde). Instituted August 31st, 1940. Constructed of gilded and silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath joined together at the base by a ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounded by a stylized depiction of a sea mine exploding, the reverse with a crimped sheet metal hinge, vertical round wire pin, with a crimped rightward opening