Looks pretty cool, but did they have Cokes in cases like that at the front in WW2?

The answer is yes, and no. Probably didn't make it right up to the battle line in cases like that (although they might have on occasion), but they certainly did in the rear areas, rest camps, and in logistics nodes. I was on a WWII chemical weapons recovery mission to the Solomon Islands in December 1989, where we were working on Mbanika island 60 NM north of Guadalcanal. Mbanika was one of the first Islands we used as a forward PT boat base begininning in 1943-- in fact, JFK was there for a while. Off shore in the crystal clear waters surrounding the island we found hundreds of Coca-Cola green glass bottles, all stamped with the raised "TM Coca-Cola" and either the "bottled in Seattle" or "San Francisco" bottling marks. So they made it out into one of the most remote places on earth by the hundreds if not thousands---the middle of the South Pacific by 1943. Mbanika was abandoned as a base by 1945, so I'm sure wherever else Americans went during the war, Coca-Cola followed. VR, Russ

While I like the commander figurine I found the other mildly disturbing: am I the only one who thought it odd that he'd display a Coke in one hand as if offering it and in the other hold a chromed(?) Colt M1911? "Sure ya can have one, as soon as ya pry my gun from my cold dead hand..." Sort of takes the warmth out of the offered Coke. While the Cokes did end up everywhere I too find the low-sided wooden case unlikely, and anyone balancing it that way apparently didn't want seconds.

LINK They realy were there, those low side boxes!

I don't think it's unlikely that the boxes made it to the front, just that you likely wouldn't have seen them up where the fighting was going on in great numbers. As far as the figure pose goes, I don't think that's a "chromed" .45, and the bottle looks like it's half empty. I've seen folks drinking out of the bottle with thier index finger wrapped around the neck like that before, so I don't think he's "offering" the soda to anyone. These are obviously relaxed figures "on break" and I think the manufacturer must have the box just balanced for the photo-- although it does say "with Sherman Turret". Too bad they are not sold separately (meaning the coke bottles and box). VR, Russ

I dont understand the .45 either ???

Maybe he's a "coke" dealer!

Because you can not see but next to the tank there a bunch of German POWs and he is asking them what they prefer... "hey sauerkraut!....What do you prefer?...a taste of the good old .45 or a Coke?"....