Found USMC Tun Tavern/IwoJima ring in OH

[TheRico]

There is an engraving on the inside of the ring with what looks to be a last name with an ID number and a city in Ohio. How would I go about getting this ring back to its owner?

 

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[cudamark]

Marine Corps veterans organisations might help. They're bound to have an Iwo reunion list.

 

[DeepseekerADS]

There is an engraving on the inside of the ring with what looks to be a last name with an ID number and a city in Ohio. How would I go about getting this ring back to its owner?

I returned a bracelet tag from 1953 finding the owner using Google. Actually, my hunting buddy found the family first

Make sure you keep us up to date on your attempt to return. Returning a ring to an Iwo Jima veteran, or his family (who will cherish it), is the right thing to do. Document it all for us, pictures are very nice. I'll be the first to vote Honorable Mention if this happens, and is documented.

 

[TommyB]

The 'standard' USMC ring has Tun's Tavern on one side and the Marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima on the other. Does not mean the owner is a vet from Iwo Jima.
Tun's Tavern is where the Marine Corps was formed prior to the revolutionary war on Nov 10th, 1774. Try posting on Craigslist or some other local rag in the lost / found section. Probably lost by a local.

 

[boogeyman]

If you google Commandant of the marine corps, you should get a hit for the CMC web site, there was a lookup for service numbers. I haven't used it in years so it might have been cut along with the budgets, but it's worth a try! Sounds like one of the rings we could buy at graduation.

check the number again. is it ***-**-**** or just numbers? I believe it was late 60s early 70s the Corps dropped issuing service numbers & started using your social security numbers. Hope that gives you a few ideas!

 

[TommyB]

I believe the move to SSN# from a service number was in 1972. I got a Service number in Dec 1971. If my memory serves me, I think that all changed in '72