Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords And Case, By Julius Bauer & Söhne Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic Private Eli Ross Lee advanced

Private Eli Ross Lee advanced to the rank of Acting Lance Corporal with the 5th Infantry Battalion and survived the war

11 mm thick

Chipyong-ni and Heartbreak Ridge

set on a 70 mm-long non-magnetic backer with a horizontal pinback

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords And Case, By Julius Bauer & Söhne Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic Private Eli Ross Lee advanced(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern und Etui). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swording piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the physical characteristics of manufacture by Julius Bauer & Shne, Zella Mehlis, measuring 48. 06