Original U.S. WWII Name Engraved Purple Heart Medal Mounted on Handle of Theater Made Machete - K.I.A. DSC Recipient Harlen Way, 117th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division Chinese Militaria The Items In This Lot

The Items In This Lot (All “Type I” except for 1 Disc):- x2 US- US National Guard Activated Units- US National Guard 162nd Regiment- US National Army Draftee Unit- US Reserves Activated Reserve Unit- US National Army Draftee Unit “USNA”- US National Guard Activated Unit “USNG”- Pennsylvania State Guard “PENN”- Field Artillery- Field Artillery A Battery- Field Artillery B Battery- Field Artillery C Battery- Field Artillery E Battery- Field Artillery 118th Regiment D Battery- Field Artillery 304th Regiment E Battery- Field Artillery Headquarters- Infantry- Infantry School - Infantry 110th Regiment L Company- Infantry Machine Gun Company- Cavalry- Cavalry 7th Regiment G Company- x2 Medical Corps- Quartermaster Corps- Motor Transport Corps- Signal Corps- Air Service- Ordnance Corps- Chemical Corps- Field Clerk- Commissary Corps- Army Band- US over PENN

produced by Coca-Cola during World War II

the top of the frame is marked BURNSIDE PATENT MODEL OF 1864 and the lock plate is marked:

and also has a 41 date

The initial award was issued without any acorns

Original U.S. WWII Name Engraved Purple Heart Medal Mounted on Handle of Theater Made Machete - K.I.A. DSC Recipient Harlen Way, 117th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division Chinese Militaria The Items In This LotOriginal Item: Only One Available. Now this is a fantastic, yet sad memento from WWII. Now we do not know if this Purple Heart was from a previous wound received or if a comrade had made it in honor of Private Harlen Way. In our research, we came across an oddity. We searched the ASN for Harlen Way which is 1906555 and got two different results. One was for Harlen W. Way who was KIA on March 25, 1945 with the 30th Infantry Division, the other is