Need help identifying polar bear button.

[searcherman]

Found this about three years ago. This was one of my first button found.The button has a bear with an United States flag.And the words "North Pole Coat".Thanks for information and for looking.

 

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[IronSpike]

Nice button

http://antiquehelper.com/item/288179

 

[trikikiwi]

So NOT CW

How the heck did you find that IronSpike

Mike

 

[IronSpike]

So NOT CW

How the heck did you find that IronSpike

Mike

I had one when I was a little kid. Nice warm coat

First hit on google 'north pole coat polar bear flag'

 

[kuger]

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How the heck did you find that IronSpike

Mike

I was going to ask the same thing!!!!Great I.D.!

 

[mydogisscout]

During the bolshevik revolution, the first Bn 339th Inf from michigan was sent to join the fight in siberia. When the russians and americans retreated, they were forced to leave behind their dead and wounded. In the early 80's a group led a covert operation into siberia to recover the american soldiers remains left on the battlefield. Reports from that operation state that the battlefield had changed very little, in fact the bodies were perfectly preserved and the trenches were still intact. The 1st Bn 339th IN were known as the polar bears. The remains of19 soldiers were recovered but the operation was compromised and was forced to terminate leaving the remainder of the 38 in siberia. Those recovered are buried around the polar bear monument at white chapel cemetery in troy, mi. I believe you found a button from one of their coats probably lost during training at somepoint around 1911