Imperial Japanese Army Third Infantry Battalion Flag
I just won a beautiful example of a Japanese Army Battalion flag. It came from the estate of a US Army veteran who reportedly captured it from a harbor facility on Luzon. I am hoping experts such as Nick Komyla could possible help ID the unit based on some inscriptions on the leather tab. Thanks for any input.
Congratulations, nice banner. However, the markings are only arsenal marks indicating year of manufacture as 1945, the producing factory as "サ", factory 1 at the Sagami Arsenal and the final acceptance check being done at the "京"、Itabashi Supervisory Group of the Army Weapons Administration HQ.
Checking for units of the 14th Area Army formed in 1945 is the best you can do to narrow down possibilities.
Last edited by Nick Komiya; 08-03-2021 at 11:38 AM.
Battalion flag in use during the Sino-Japanese War 1894-5. Prior to ordinance 13 above, the flag was carried with the pole in the gun barrel.
Very good information! So the Japanese military seemed to have marked their flags in a somewhat similar method to the US....date stamps along with QM markings. However the flags were generic in their unit designation.....similar to the Wermacht who used silver pole rings to designate units?
The army flags came under their weapons marking regulations, which required (1) Manufacture date with or without month (2) Arsenal ID of production (3) Acceptance Stamp. These 3 markings were to be applied to the staff side at the rear bottom section. This practise has been in use at least since July 1924.
Battalion numbers were denoted by the color and number of the wave motifs, but beyond that, they were generic with no affiliations to certain regiments present on the battalion flags.
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