~ 720th Military Police Battalion Reunion Association History Project ~

Photo A0208: Left to right, CPT Harvey Keaton, Staff Provost Marshal,  CPL Koyei Tome, C Company, 720th MP Battalion,  BG F. A. Kreidel, Provost Marshal, Army Forces Far East Command (AFFEC), CPT Francis E. “Frank” Payne, Commanding Officer, C Company,  720th MP Battalion, examine the life size representation of CPL Tome used in 13th MP Corps anniversary display at AFFEC, 8th Army HQ, Camp Zama, Occupied Japan, on 26 September 1954. CPL Tome was from Hawaii, and in 1954 it was not a U.S. state. On 1 July of 1967, CPT Payne, now a LTC, became the 3rd Commander of the 720th MP Battalion in Vietnam. Courtesy of SP3(T) Theodore Costa, A&C Company, 720th MP Battalion & 392nd MP Detachment, AFFEC, 8th Army, Camp Zama, Occupied Japan, April 1954-March 1955.

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