Germany, Third Reich. An Air Defence Honour Decoration, II Class Medal, with Case Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic measuring 37 mm (w) x

measuring 37 mm (w) x 8 mm (l)

one day after he was sentenced to 4 days Field Punishment No

Later that day

he was awarded three Purple Hearts

the Miravalles clasp inverted

Germany, Third Reich. An Air Defence Honour Decoration, II Class Medal, with Case Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic measuring 37 mm (w) x(Luftschutz Ehrenzeichen, II. Klasse). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of aluminum, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a double sided circular oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised mobile swastika, circumscribed by an inscription of FR VERDIENSTE IM LUFTSCHUTZ (FOR MERIT IN AIR DEFENCE), the reverse bearing a central raised institution date