Original U.S. WWII Engraved Bronze Star Medal to Wallis W. Freeman - Wounded in Action - December 1944 Headgear The buttstock looks like it

The buttstock looks like it was at one time finished with a brownish lacquer

The brass "pumpkin" mounted "shaving brush" to the front top of the crest is also absent

forming the reservoir of a Trench lighter

this first pattern M35 map case is in very good used condition

The Japanese responded with heavy artillery and machine gun fire

Original U.S. WWII Engraved Bronze Star Medal to Wallis W. Freeman - Wounded in Action - December 1944 Headgear The buttstock looks like ithOriginal Item: One of a kind. PFC Wallis W. Freeman ASN 36424723 enlisted on 1 February 1943. According to records from the National Archives he was an infantryman and was wounded in line of duty sometime in December 1944 by artillery shrapnel to the head. He was discharged from the ospital in February 1945. At some point during his service he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for gallantry in action which was engraved with his name on the reverse