Philippines Artifact - What is it.
Article about: My late father was in WW2. He is not with us anymore so I can't ask him about this. He was stationed in the Philippines in 1945 right after the war ended. A remember him saying that he had t
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Looked into the Augustin Said book: Heitai. Uniforms, Equipment & Personal Items of the Japanese Soldier, 1937-1945, but I have not found similar item.
It could be however a kind of military temporary pass. Not exactly POW camp issue, but in my opinion it was the pass received by the soldier during the service and not returned to the unit commander.
This could be still in the soldier's pocket when taken as POW and went with him to the camp.
Similar system of identification of soldiers at leave was in the tsarist's Russian army - small metal tokens, known as "litchnyi znak" were taken by the men when leaving the unit and going outside.
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