A very nice Navy name tag. I should point out here the usual error of calling the green Japanese Navy uniforms "NLF".
As I have often mentioned before, the SNLF was virtually defunct by the end of 1943 and the Navy introduced the green uniforms for all naval personel in that year as well.
The vast majority of Navy uniform items that collectors like to attribute to the NLF are in fact not.
All Naval personel were liable to become infantry towards the last years of the war, and that did indeed happen in most areas of the south west Pacific when seagoing crews had no more ships to be manned and Naval air units had no more planes to service.
CB
As I have often mentioned before, the SNLF was virtually defunct by the end of 1943 and the Navy introduced the green uniforms for all naval personel in that year as well.
The vast majority of Navy uniform items that collectors like to attribute to the NLF are in fact not.
All Naval personel were liable to become infantry towards the last years of the war, and that did indeed happen in most areas of the south west Pacific when seagoing crews had no more ships to be manned and Naval air units had no more planes to service.
CB
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