82nd Class of Tachiarai Army Flight School Pilot Badges/大刀洗陸軍飛行学第八十二期戰斗班章

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 fleet near Okinawa. Operations at Tachiarai came to an end when American B-29s destroyed the base on March 27, 1945.

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大刀洗陸軍飛行學校 - Tachiarai Army Flight School

第八十二期戰斗班 - 82nd Class Battle Squad /Combat Team/

2600 - 1940

Engraved

在安 - Ariyasu

Marked 純銀 - pure silver.


Original case.

下士官用操縦徽章 - Non-commissioned Officer's Pilot Badge

 

Another example of such badge.

Engraved

三砂 - Misago