USMC Guam Police Badge WWII / Korean War Vet.

[USMC-RECON0321]

Tonight when dropping off one of my sons friends from school I went in to talk to the parents and noticed this on the wall. This was his fathers (he was born when his dad was in his 40's) His father entered the Marines in 1944 and continued to serve on active duty until losing the lower part of his left arm in the Korean War. The son didn't know much about his dads service other than what is on the wall. He has his entire foot locker also, but we didn't have time to go through it. I plan to help him get his father's service records, so he can learn more about his service time. Anyway, I never seen a badge like this and I also noticed he has 2 purple hearts, but the son only knew of the obvious battle wound (Loss of an arm). Hard to see in the picture, but the ribbon rack in the case of his actual uniform ribbons has a star on the purple heart ribbon.

 

Troy

 

[1canpara]

That's very cool Troy, and very unique! You never know what you'll run across do you?

 

Rick

[katieony]

Interesting...first badge of that type that I have seen. Thanks for posting!

[Airborne-Hunter]

Very interesting piece! I found this one about a month ago. Best ABN

[Airborne-Hunter]

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[USMC-RECON0321]

Very interesting. It must've been a small unit SOP to have badges in use on Guam I'm thinking?