Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, First Pattern Province of China Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll

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

the strap measuring 24 mm x 1

(Ehrenkreuze der Deutschen Mutter mit Etui)

topped by a machine-embroidered golden-yellow Medical cypher

Footnote: Peter Young was born in Linlithgowshire

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Black Grade Wound Badge, First Pattern Province of China Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll(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