Japanese Navy Paratrooper Patch

[Ed Hicks]

Japanese Navy Paratrooper Patch...Wartime or Postwar?

[J7W22007]

Looks repro to me.

"Paratrooper’s rating patches The IJN’s circular patches in red-on-blue or, for summer, black-on-white were replaced in November 1942 with squared shield-shape patches. No paratrooper’s patches were produced in the new style, since the branch was at that date disbanding. 3rd, 2nd & 1st Class seamen rates wore a single branch symbol, crossed symbols, and crossed symbols below a blossom respectively; 3rd, 2nd & 1st Class petty officers wore the same but within a wreath." -----from Osprey Publishing - Japanese Paratroop Forces of World War II


Taka

[Jareth]

reproduction of a fantasy design that was never issued