Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords, by Wilhelm Deumer visually-hidden With a German greeting

With a German greeting

opening to reveal a multi-piece off-white card stock insert

He attended Radio School at Noroton Heights

Before seeing action in Korea

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords, by Wilhelm Deumer visually-hidden With a German greeting(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepece, the obverse with pebbled arms, bearing a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture by Wilhelm Deumer, Ldenscheid, measuring 48. 27 mm (w) x 48. 27 mm (h),