Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class With Case, By B.h. Mayer, Dietrich Maerz Collection Hold 5307th Composite Group (Provisional) "Merrill's

5307th Composite Group (Provisional) "Merrill's Marauders"

The doctor noted that Cruise "states (his) leg (gets) tired some when doing route marches (but he is) always able to carry on"

Two Anti-aircraft Cloth Badge - Machine embroidered

stating his place of death as Reserve Hospital Lübeck and burial at Ehrenfriedhof (the central memorial in Lübeck)

in which I instructed them to return at once

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class With Case, By B.h. Mayer, Dietrich Maerz Collection Hold 5307th Composite Group (Provisional) "Merrill's(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 I. Klasse mit Etui). Constructed of iron and silver, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse with a central mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of manufacture by the firm of B. H. Mayer, Pforzheim,