Unusual Japanese Flag Question

[Bob Hritz]

Can anyone help me identify this type of flag. It has a sleeve for pole mounting and a corner patch on one side only.

Thank you,
Bob Hritz

[Bob Hritz]

Patch detail and reverse of sewing of patch.

[oldflagswanted]

Interesting flag ...

Unusual Japanese Flag Question
Can anyone help me identify this type of flag.
It has a sleeve for pole mounting and a corner
patch on one side only.
Thank you,
Bob Hritz

Interesting flag, maybe from some
veterans association support group.
You might find it shown per this link.
OFW

[Bob Hritz]

Thank You, Ben. Looks like I have a lot of searching to do on that nice site.

Bob Hritz

[GHP]

Here Ya Go ....

横須賀海軍工廠
Yokosuka Navy Arsenal

工員養成所
Factory Worker Training School

The only image I could find is sooooo small!

Approach of Yokosuka navy factory training school dormitory around 1945

In Yokosuka where there were many navy-related facilities, educational institutions were scattered around the city. The Ikegami factory training school moved from the Navy Arsenal in 1939 as a training facility for the workers. At the current Ikegami location, thousands of people were living in the vicinity and in the dormitory and the school buildings. Teruko Yoshimura (88) was working as a fitness inspector at the Institute of Experimental Psychology at the Institute of Technology. She was in charge of testing to judge occupational suitability of contract workers gathered from rural areas. "There were no holidays so our weeks were "Monday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Friday ". Even in girls' school, I worked at the Yokosuka post office and confectionery factory to support the Navy with labor service. "When I close my eyes, my memories go back to being with my school friends singing 'Patriotic Flowers' [Aikoku no Hana] during holiday times." After graduation, many alumni worked at military-related facilities, and young women were sent out as important productive workers.

My memory of the end of the war is clear. August 15th. There was a fierce machinegun fire from the US military's aircraft carrier to the periphery of the flagpole tower of the facility. I t was 12 o'clock. Tamane broadcasting began. Actually, three days earkuer, it seems that the communication department heard confidentially that it intercepted the radio concerning "surrender". "I did not understand what was meant, but I understood little by little that it seems to be true (Tamane Broadcasting)." As the workers returned to the area on that day, the dormatory was dismantled and the timber was quickly carried away. Today, schools and public housing are lining up in those places, and there is no image of those days at all. "The fact that there were such facilities in Ikegami, is not widely known, and now people cannot imagine living in wartime where everything was inconvenient."

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After the war, I got married at the age of 21. My husband experienced the Battle of Okinawa -- we met when he had come to Uraga by an evacuation transport ship. "I had been acting with Shirayuri [White Lily] Corps for a while and I did not talk much, but it seems I was suffering for a while."
Jpz. lang. site


[GHP's note: White Lily Corps: School-girl & teachers who were nursing volunteers]
I visited their memorial in Okinawa ... many died during the Battle of Okinawa. It's a well-known story in Japan.]

--Guy



--Guy

[Jareth]

Interesting flag! I have a small sub collection of navy Arsenal worker items. Looks like there was once a slightly larger label on it. Look at discolored/sun faded area left of label.

[oldflagswanted]

Thanks, and ...

...
Yokosuka Navy Arsenal
Factory Worker Training School
--Guy

Hello Guy:
Thanks for the very interesting flag
patch translation and related info.
From same noting the following ...
"Yokosuka became one of the main shipyards of the
Imperial Japanese Navy in the 20th century, building
numerous battleships such as Yamashiro, and aircraft
carriers such as Hiryu and Shokaku. Naval aircraft were
designed at the nearby Yokosuka Naval Air Technical Arsenal.

During the Pacific War, the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal was
attacked by one bomber during the Doolittle Raid on 18
April 1942 and by a large force of carrier aircraft during
the Attack on Yokosuka on 18 July 1945. The facilities
were seized by the Allied forces at the end of World War II,
and on 15 October 1945 the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal was
officially abolished. The U.S. Navy base at the former
Yokosuka Naval Arsenal.

However, the facilities continued to be used in the post-
World War II period, by the United States Navy as the
Yokosuka Ship Repair Facility and its former property is
now under the control of the United States Fleet Activities
Yokosuka."
OFW