Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, Variation 4, by B.H. Mayer United Republic of not general service) and C

not general service) and C (home service (Canada only)) and declared "Medically unfit

then experienced "a sudden drop in temperature to 97 degrees" before his "heart petered out" and died at 5:20 am on February 17

April/June 1983

Leier was appointed a Reserve-Offizier-Bewerber (R

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Minesweeper War Badge, Variation 4, by B.H. Mayer United Republic of not general service) and C(Kriegsabzeichen fr Minensuch , U Boot Jagd und Sicherungsverbnde). Constructed of gilded and silvered feinzink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a depiction of an exploding sea mine, the reverse with a block hinge and shorten banjo style pinback meeting a flattened and rounded catch emanating from a circular plate, maker