japanese army aviation badge

Reverse 2596 - 1936 陸軍航空技術學校 - Army Aviation Technology/Technical School Details.

Excerpt from the Jürgen P. Melzer (2020) Wings for the Rising Sun. A Transnational History of Japanese Aviation. Harvard University Asia Center (Harvard East Asian Monographs), p.135. "In 1935 the army established the Air Technical Research Institute (Rikugun Kōkūgijutsu Kenkyūjo) at Tachikawa...

Size 46.4 x 30.5 mm. Reverse 飛行第三戦隊 - 3rd Flight Squadron /Sentai/ 准士官下士團 - Warrant Officer /Junshikan/ NCO Group 贈 - Gift

Anonymous and unidentified as for today. Unmarked variation. Private collection. Photos courtesy of the owner.

Anonymous badge. Size 24.5 x 21.3 mm. Obverse 航空 - Aviation + Army star in the center of propeller.

Obverse 航空 - Aviation 無線 - Radio reverse 紀元2602 - 1942 engraved 廣川抗三郎 - Hirokawa Kōsaburō 陸軍航空通信學校 - Army Aviation Signal School 第一期無線學生 - 1st Class/Term of Radio Operators

Size 54.5 x 53.2 mm. Obverse 航整 - Aircraft Maintenance reverse 2001 - 1941 陸軍航空整備學校 - Army Aviation Maintenance School 第十八面乙種生 - 18th class B-class Student Engraved 下山剛 - Takeshi Shimoyama In 1928, a new program was created to enable civilian population to enter the training...

Obverse 関機 - Engine 大東亜戦争 - Greater East Asian War reverse 皇紀2602 - 1942 陸軍航空整備学校 - Army Aviation Maintenance School 第二十八回機関学生 - 28th Engine Student + Engraved name.

1944 watch fobs https://asiamedals.info/threads/1944-army-aviation-mechanics-graduation-commemorative-watch-fobs-2604.29013/ Reverse 皇紀2603年 - 1943 第九十六期普通科飛行機 - 96th Regular Class of Airplane 整備術練習生卒業記念 - Maintenance Practice Trainee Graduation Commemorative

Field repaired badge. The reverse pin and hood were replaced and resoldered. Private collection. Photos courtesy of the owner. Reverse engraved 第五十八期生 - 58th Class 竹本伍長 - Corporal Takemoto

Obverse 柏 for 陸軍柏第四航空教育隊 - Army Kashiwa 4th Aviation Training Corps 無線 - Wireless; Radio Reverse 第四航空教育隊 - 4th Aviation Training Corps 第一回無線幹部候補生 - 1st Radio Officer Candidates Class Engraved 青木重雄 - Shigeo Aoki Army pilot badge.

Obverse 爆撃 - Bombing reverse 2601 - 1941 熊谷陸軍飛行學校 - Kumagaya Army Flight School 第十期操縦生徒 - 10th Pilot Trainee Class /Term/ Engraved 南 - Minami

Obverse 操縦 - Flying (a plane) Utsunomiya Army Flight School emblem and Skull and Bones emblem. revers 皇紀2602年 - 1942 宇都宮陸軍飛行學校 - Utsunomiya Army Flight School 第八十七期操縦學生 - 87th Pilot Class Trainee

Size 54 x 30 mm. Thickness 2 mm. Obverse 13 for 13th class 関機 - Engine reverse 2603 - 1943 陸軍航空整備学校 - Army Aviation Maintenance School 卒業記念 - Graduation Commemorative Engraved 美濃德彌 - Tokuya Mino Marked 純銀 - pure silver.

Reverse 所沢陸軍飛行学校 - Tokorozawa Army Flight School 第一期操縦生徒卒業記念 - 1st Class /Term/ Pilot Graduation Commemorative