Non-commissioned officer's pilot badge in silver.
Size 50 x 37 mm.
Weight 37 g.
Reverse engraved
第一期 - 1st class
樫出 - Kashide
Marked 純銀 - pure silver.
Original case.
下士官操縦徽章 - Non-commissioned Officer's Pilot Badge
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non-commissioned officer's pilotbadge in silver
下士官操縦徽章
The Tachiarai Army Flight School opened in 1940 and trained many pilots who took part in kamikaze operations in the last year of the war. The Tachiarai Flight School had a branch school in Chiran (Kagoshima Prefecture), where many Army pilots departed to make suicide attacks on the American...
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下士官用操縦徽章
大刀洗陸軍飛行学校陸軍飛行機操縦徽章
大刀洗陸軍飛行学章
大刀洗陸軍飛行学第八十二期戰斗班章
Reverse
2596 = 1936
卒業記念 - Graduation Commemorative
熊谷陸軍飛行学校 - Kumagaya Army Flight School
第二期操縦生徒 - 2nd Class of Pilot Trainees (school was established in 1935)
Engraved
齋藤 - Saitō
imperial japan army badge
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熊谷陸軍飛行学校卒業記念章
第二期操縦生徒熊谷陸軍飛行学校卒業記念章
Reverse
偵察第八十二期 - Reconnaissance 82nd Class
Engraved
大岩 - Ōiwa (second kanji could be typo see https://asiamedals.info/threads/graduation-commemorative-watch-fobs-of-utsunomiya-army-flight-school.23736/)
Original case.
下士官操縦徽章 - NCO Pilot Badge.