Well a Veteran down the Street from me who lives alone let me cut his Grass this Summer. He is really sick and one day he invited me in for Lemonade and I told him I was interested in WW2. He disappeared for a moment and returned with an old burlap bag containing this Etui and a single NCO Runic patch with well worn lightning bolts. He told me he flushed out a SS Hitler Youth Sniper in the Battle for Caen and he cut off this collar patch and took this Etui out of his breast pocket. He can only remember that the Sniper was an NCO and wearing complete camo clothing and wore some type of award for kills on his sleeve. He thinks this Sniper had killed a least a dozen men in the last two days before they got him out of his Hide with Mortar Fire. For his actions that day he was awarded the Bronze Star.
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