Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords and Case, by Julius Bauer & Söhne Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic FROM YOUR FATHER HANS BARTSCH

FROM YOUR FATHER HANS BARTSCH (HAUPTMANN DER RESERVE)”

7 mm (h) wooden frame

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He was soon sent for a tour of duty in Vietnam

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Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords and Case, by Julius Bauer & Söhne Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic FROM YOUR FATHER HANS BARTSCH(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 43 for Julius Bauer & Shne, Zella Mehlis, measuring 47. 88 mm (w) x 47. 61 mm