Original award document of Unteroffizier Jakobs for the Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse (Iron Cross 2nd Class), awarded for courageous service on November 11, 1944, while serving with the 5. Staffel/ Nachtjagdgeschwader 2 of the 3. Jagd-Division. Document was signed by Generalmajor Walter Grabmann. Condition as seen, has been folded in the past.
Postwar Signature of Josef Kammhuber. Josef Kammhuber (August 19, 1896 – January 25, 1986) was a career officer in the Luftwaffe and post-World War II German Air Force. During World War II, he was the first general of night fighters in the Luftwaffe. Kammhuber created the night fighter defense system, the so-called Kammhuber Line, but the detailed knowledge of the system provided to the Royal Air Force by British military intelligence allowed them to render it ineffective. Personal battles between him and Erhard Milch, director of the Reich Air Ministry, led to his dismissal in 1943. After the war, he joined the Bundeswehr, the armed forces of West Germany.
