Japan, Constitutional Monarch. An Air Self-Defense Force Badges Auction December 1940

December 1940

1941 as part of Operation Barbarossa

which is where he was engaged until the end of the year

in a Presentation Case (black patterned exterior

receipt 6th Victory Loan $50

Japan, Constitutional Monarch. An Air Self-Defense Force Badges Auction December 1940Direct Air Command Badge (three piece construction, bronze gilt with green and white enamelled disk, mounted to a silvered metal wings base, unmarked, 21. 5 mm x 80. 2 mm, dual screwposts intact, without screwbacks); Navy Pilot's Badge (bronze gilt, 19. 8 mm x 60. 7 mm, horizontal pinback); Flight Surgeon Badge (silvered metal, 20. 5 mm x 60 mm, dual screwbacks); and Pilot Wing (yellow embroidered insignia, on a black nylon base, 21 mm x 47 mm).