A swelling impulse

[plloyd1010]

Sometime back, someone wanted a USMC countersheet of the 1st of the 1st of the 1st. I had an artistic issue with that, because shrinking the emblem down to 0.16" height makes a lopsided red blob inside the blue diamond. A bit of research on the emblem showed that that particular emblem wasn't adopted until 1947. The divisional emblem was adopted in February of 1943, the regimental emblem shortly after that.

Then I thought, that would not have been the emblem for the regiment at Guadalcanal or in the Atlantic marines scenarios. So, I did more research, but could not find an image of the earlier emblem, though I did find a couple descriptions. Here is my reconstruction based on those descriptions:
   

Any thoughts? Particularly interested in those from whomever wanted the 1st of the 1st of the 1st countersheet. I am afraid though, it likely only be the  1st of the 1st.