Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class with Swords and Case, by Julius Bauer & Söhne Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic An Imperial Japanese Army field

An Imperial Japanese Army field hat constructed of coarse olive drab wool field cap with most of the machine sewn yellow star worn off the front

Hughes injuring the lower extremities of his back and the area between his shoulders

maker marked "LAUER NURNBERG" on the obverse

the upper right corner bearing Lützow’s handwritten signature in pencil

His sixth period of hospitalization would prove to be his longest

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class with Swords and Case, by Julius Bauer & Söhne Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic An Imperial Japanese Army field(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern und Etui). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebble 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 48. 25 mm (w) x 48.