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I bought this firearm at a gun show about 8 months ago for $425. I’ve always wanted an Ithaca 37 and this is the one I found. Well I wanted to deep clean it today and I took off the butt plate and found these two documents in it.
This was the personal hunting shotgun of a man named Captain Joseph Patrick O’Hanlon pf the Army Corps of Engineers. He was a West Point graduate class of 1945. He was awarded a combat action ribbon from I assume Korea and was later promoted to Lieutenant Colonel.
He must have had this sent from home or brought it himself for hunting pheasants and ducks which were common game to hunt in Seoul, South Korea where he was stationed.
I tried finding descendants but he doesn’t seem to have any and he passed in 2021. I was going to offer to sell it back if he did have any but he doesn’t. I am kind of curious what this would be worth due to the provenance and overall history of it.
Pictures provided.

I’m not sure if this is the proper place to discuss this but I recently found information about my Great Uncle named Dan G. Sweet. He served in the USMC in the 2nd Battalion, 10th Marines during WW2. He could never talk about his service and resorted to alcohol I’ve been told (he passed long before I was born). The only story he told my great grandma (while he was inebriated) was that him and the rest of his regiment were on Saipan and stopped to eat after a long march and in the midst of eating they realized they were in a field surrounded by bodies and there were flies everywhere, but they were so out of it that they didn’t even care. I read that they were at Tarawa, Saipan, and Okinawa but that they were also interestingly at Nagasaki during the occupation of Japan. He was an AA gunner which fits the fact that he was in a regiment that was artillery. My question is, does anybody have specific information of the 2nd Battalion, 10th Marines and their service during ww2. Maybe even photographs? Thanks.

Very cool documents found it Ithaca Model 37 buttstock