Army Shipping Command Special Breast Badge/船舶用特別胸章

Established by the Order of Minister of War No.34 on May 10, 1944.

Badge was Intended for the personnel of IJA Shipping Сommand special ships (like army special attack boats "Maru-ni", explosive boat "Shinyo", 1944 submarine-chaser "Karo-Tei" and Type 3 submergence transport vehicles).
Badge was worn above Army Shipping Command Breast Badge https://asiamedals.info/threads/army-shipping-command-breast-badge.24550/

Rare photo of the member of Army Maritime Advance Squadron /陸軍海上挺進戦隊/ (army special attack boat unit) with both badges.

 

Series of rare photo of another member Army Maritime Advance Squadron (and graduate of Hiroshima Ship Training Center) Michio Kitahara who died in Okinawa in May 1945. He was only 22 years old.

Together with his older brother, October 1944.

With family, October 1944.

 

Commemorarive monument to the members of Army Maritime Advance Squadron (Osumi Peninsula, Kagoshima Prefecture).

 

Original badges.

Original badges are very rare.
This is one of them.

 

Replicas and fakes.