Japanese badge

[Roman]

Can anyone please translate for me?
Any help is appreciated.

[GHP]

THAT ... is just too cool! I want one!!!!!


Front:
爆撃
8
Bakugeki Hachi
Bombing -- 8 [class number]

Reverse:
2602 「1942」
熊谷陸軍飛行学校
Kumaya Rikugun Hikō Gakkō
Kumaya [Bear Valley] Army Flight School

第八期少年飛行兵
Dai Hakki Shonen Hikō-hei
8th Group Youth Airmen

Japanese wiki about the Army Youth Flight School
(Trust me, "Google Translate" is NOT your friend!)

Army The boy flying soldiers (Army Shonenhi Kohei), Japan to become the Army's aviation corps active duty noncommissioned officer, and is selected from a teenage male volunteers to undergo training in the aviation relationship between various schools of the Army who. In April 1933 the Army flight school student is determined to be the origin of the system in 1940 (Showa 15 years) than officially April to become the name of the "boy flying soldiers" Pacific War (war Greater East Asia) We were there until the end. It is sometimes abbreviated as small flying.

table of contents

1 Overview
1.1 until the system established
1.2 Army flight school student
1.3 basic education and professional education
1.4 "boy flying soldiers" enactment
1.5 Pacific War late
2 Biography
3 Major graduates
4 Footnotes
5 References
6 See also
......
More at the url

--Guy

[Roman]

Thank you very much!

[imperialjapan]

FYI, these pictures are from a recently-ended Yahoo Japan auction. It sold for around 100,000 yen (about 800 USD).

See here
http://page4.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/d171290619

From the same seller on the same day was an Army Pilot's badge, which sold for 132,000 yen.
http://page13.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/j...ion/r130987483

[GHP]

FYI, these pictures are from a recently-ended Yahoo Japan auction. It sold for around 100,000 yen (about 800 USD).

From the same seller on the same day was an Army Pilot's badge, which sold for 132,000 yen.

ホｯ。リー。カウ！

聖なる牛


Holy Cow!

I wanna buy a repop ..... I love that fob (I carry a pocket watch).

[imperialjapan]

Yes, prices for these fobs and the Army/Navy proficiency badges are rather high these days. Saw the wagon driver's badge go for $822
http://www.ebay.com/itm/252044098961...84.m1435.l2649

and a broken tank badge for $922
http://www.ebay.com/itm/252044096380...84.m1435.l2649

So if you have any and want to sell, now is a good time! (But ebay is notoriously unpredictable so it could have been just a temporary flash of high prices.)