page 5841: "In Italy on the night of 21st-22nd October 1944
he was posthumously awarded the 1914 Star
in typewriter print stating “Nehmen Sie bitte für die Freude
marked "LI-GI" on the pinback
Higher Grade: Four-piece construction
Germany, Third Reich. An Air Defence Merit Medal, Ii Class Hold page 5841: "In Italy on(Luftschutz Ehrenzeichen II. Klasse). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of zink, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a circular oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, the obverse with a central raised mobile swastika, circumscribed by an inscription of FR VERDIENSTE IM LUFTSCHUTZ (FOR MERIT IN AIR DEFENCE), the reverse with a central raised date of 1938, unmarked, measuring