An Early Spanish Order of Aeronautical Merit
the canister measuring 105 mm in diameter x 168 mm in height overall
inside back cover is blank
It states that Gefreiter (Lance Corporal) Paul Hofer of the 3rd Company of Luftgau Signals Regiment Charkow (Kharkov) has been awarded the Wound Badge in Black for being wounded once on January 14
with both Captain Boelcke and Lieutenant Immelmann wearing the Pour-le-Merite
Germany, Third Reich. Orders, Decorations, Medals And Badges Of The Third Reich (Including The Free City Of Danzig) GTRexclude An Early Spanish Order ofHardcover, white cloth cover, with an illustration of the German Order on the front cover, entitled "Orders, Decorations, Medals and Badges of the Third Reich (Including the Free City of Danzig)", by David Littlejohn, M. A., A. L. A. and Colonel C. M. Dodkins, C. B. E., D. S. O., assisted by Roger James Bender, copyrighted in 1968 by the two authors, Sixth Printing in April 1977, printed in the United States of America, published by R. James Bender