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Article about: Here are some instrument badges my grandfather brought back from WW2 (in the Pacific -Siapan, Tarawa, Tinain, Guadalcanal). I think these are badges from an airplane but not 100 percent sure

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    Here are some instrument badges my grandfather brought back from WW2 (in the Pacific -Saipan, Tarawa, Tinain, Guadalcanal). I think these are badges from an airplane but not 100 percent sure. I was hoping to have someone decipher them and tell if they are from a plane. I have tried to find out what WW2 Japanese plane they could be from but no luck yet. - Thanks

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    Last edited by godzilla2007; 12-27-2018 at 07:12 PM.

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    I can only tell you that they come off of a plane radio. Words like "Oscillator ", "Capacitor" "Aerial Connector" etc are there. However which radio they came from can only be told by a real radio specialist, as those are only plates for switches. At least they are not from the transmitter and receiver commonly mounted on Zero fighters. Those radios shown below have plates with similar words, but not the same so most likely it was no Zero. Your Grandpa should have taken the plate with the radio type ID on it, as that would have identified the plane easily.
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    Thanks for the info Nick. As always I appreciate your translation and information which helps to identify\confirm these items.

    Here are some parts of what I'm guessing are from the same plane as the data ID badges. I'm hoping these pieces can help with the identification of the plane. Green Painted (only on one side) Aluminum, Thick Plastic (Airplane Canopy?) and Rivets.


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    This item was with the plane parts. Any ideas as to what it is? Looks like a device used for calcualting the dropping of bombs. I have not seen anything to compare this device to...

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    These items were also with the plane parts.


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    The green fuselage skin is too generic for ID. The small pouch is a case for a military screw threading tap. The small wooden tag says transmission post, the larger one is in gibberish code. The scaling device I have seen before, but memory is having a day off sorry.

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    Thanks Nick for your input on these items. You have solved age old mysteries for me with these items. That small pouch for the threading tap tool has had me intrigued for a long time..I thought for sure it was a map case but I have never seen a IJA map case like that so I was baffled until you translated it... The wood Transmission Post tag is just a single tag - I took front and back photos ( i should have noted that in the photos). Any idea how the wood Transmission post tag would have been used? Would something like that have been attached to a radio or instrument...Like an ID tag? I keep looking at the "scaling" device and trying to make educated guesses as to how it would have been utilized and for what purpose. I can't figure it out. My grandfather brought these items back from the war and they have been in my possession for as long as I can remember.
    Last edited by godzilla2007; 12-23-2018 at 07:07 PM.

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    The transmission post tag can be from a job assignment board. You hang that tab under a soldier's name to show that it was his turn to man the radio, etc. Anyway, it is too small to be signage for the radio shack. The instrument looks like something used for dropping torpedoes, but that is only a hunch.

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    Thanks Nick for the assesment on the transmission post tag and the scaling instrument. Regarding the instrument, I agree, it was probably used to calculate the time it takes to reach a ship for the dropping of torpedos. Interesting little device that I think is rare. I can't image many of these devices survived the war or the test of time.
    Last edited by godzilla2007; 12-23-2018 at 07:08 PM.

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