Two of the photos appearing on George Crotts' page were of two Missouri Marines; Irl Dement and Fred Bevfoden. As some of us know, things called search engines can be employed to find websites and pages containing this or that name or topic. Thus it was that the half-brother of Fred Bevfoden found this page and the photos of Fred. Wade Martin contacted George, many stories and "things" were subsequently exchanged and among the things shared by Wade was a Japanese Yen note bearing a great many signatures and the added information, "Osaka, Japan, Oct. 31, 1950" and "Camp Sakai". Among the signatures were Fred's and George's.
The Yen note and other items were obtained by Wade from other of Fred's family.
The night of 31 October 1950 was the last night in Japan for the First Replacement Draft.The next morning the Marines boarded a train bound for Kobe, Japan, and there they boarded the Aiken Victory for a two or three day voyage that would eventually disembark them at the port of Wonsan, North Korea.