Found a Sterling Silver WWII Combat Infantryman Badge Today at 1940's Dump!

[FreeBirdTim]

Slow day detecting in the woods, so I stopped at a 1940's bottle dump I found a few months back. Didn't find any unbroken bottles, but I did find a cool relic. It's a Sterling silver WWII combat infantryman badge. Can't believe someone would throw it in the trash. Based on what I read, it's a very prestigious award.

The badges I saw online were blue, but this one is white. Maybe the white is a base coat and the blue top coat washed off over the last 70 years. Very cool find, even though I hit it with my digger and one of the pins is broken off.

Here's a few pics:

 

[Tenspeed]

Great find!

I found a sterling one like that in the curb strip where I live about 8 years ago. The blue was gone and one pin was rusted off with the other bent flat.

It makes you wonder how it was lost. Did the person die and others had no attachment to it so it became a toy for grand kids?

 

[Noah_D]

Cool find... you should research who owned the property then and see if you might be able to find the soldier who it belonged too.