Unknown Filipino Officer Collar Badge

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What is this Collar Badge?

 

One 2nd Lieutenant Roberto Lim, stateside March 1942,1st Filipino Infantry Battalion Camp San Luis Obispo California ,from what little I could find on him he apparently leaves the Ground Forces  and transfers to the Air Corps and becomes bomber Pilot sometime in 1942, and gets overseas late in the war as a B-29 Pilot in The Pacific.

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Lim by the way is one of the Sons of Vicente Lim West Point Class of 1914, thee very first Filipino to enter the Point, his other son Vicente Lim Jr. also went to the Academy, Class of 1944.

 

 Vicente Lim Sr's extensive WIKI.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicente_Lim

[Remark]

It appears to be the standard US Coat of Arms, but with the top center circle broken off.

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21 hours ago, Remark said:

It appears to be the standard US Coat of Arms, but with the top center circle broken off.

If it is I wonder what it was from, its small right, and curiously that's the side his Rank Insignia is to have been worn, the BOS goes on the other side, in his Case Infantry Crossed Rifles or should be Infantry Crossed Rifles.

[Remark]

I really don't know what it is from, but if I were to make one I would use a 1920s-1930s era officer's unassigned troops cut out insignia.  You would have to get rid of the outer rim and the top circle.  It all seems like a lot of trouble, but I don't know where else to get something that size.

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22 hours ago, Remark said:

I really don't know what it is from, but if I were to make one I would use a 1920s-1930s era officer's unassigned troops cut out insignia.  You would have to get rid of the outer rim and the top circle.  It all seems like a lot of trouble, but I don't know where else to get something that size.

Yes it is  stumper.

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Whohoa.

 

Found it, this is a  Philippine Commonwealth Army Officers  Insignia, a Insignia worn like our Officers U.S. Collar Badge as we see, as this photo in my OP is in 1942, it would make sense this badge is worm where it is, as at that date, the Officers wore the U.S. Collar Badge on the Right Collar and BOS on the Left, with Ranks on the Shoulder Loops, this was changed in due course right, here the Rank is worn on the Right and BOS on the Left Shoulder Lops unadorned

 

Here's a Officer in 194 in The PI, one Celestino Almeda  Curios as to why Lim wears it as he is a Commission Officer in the U.S. Army, perhaps all Filipino Officers in the 1st Filipino Infantry Battalion (Later Regiment) wore this instead of the U.S. Collar Badge??

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A Close Up.

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It is a metal version of this Emblem without the Stars, now to find an original example as seen being worn.

 

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Remembering Celestino Almeda

 

Buried at Quantico

 

Celestino Gonzales Almeda

[Remark]

Nice find!

[jerseygary]

Nice job tracking that down!

[Remark]

I found this on the web.  It has a few versions without the stars on them.  The picture owner watermarked the picture if you want to look it up.

[kiaiokalewa]

Here's the actual  collar insignia.