Japanese Lt. Mortar Badge

[Ed Maroli]

A recent lucky find for me.

~Ed

[Paul L Murphy]

A lovely badge. These are seriously underappreciated and a lot harder to find than most people realise.

[Ed Maroli]

Thanks Paul, Would this be for the knee mortars?

[Paul L Murphy]

I don't think so. It was awarded if you qualified on mortars through a course of instruction on them as far as I am aware. I do not think the little knee mortars were covered by this, but I may stand corrected.

[Guest Rick Research]

I used to have quite a few of these qualification badges... all lonnnnng gone Pre-Computer.

Several had tiny little "cotter pins" (bulge in one side of the "hairpin" to prevent slipping out of the catch) and a couple had tiny little wooden pegs.

What was actually the ISSUE fastener for the catch?

[Eric K.]

Thats a very nice badge!

Eric

[Ed Maroli]

I used to have quite a few of these qualification badges... all lonnnnng gone Pre-Computer.

Several had tiny little "cotter pins" (bulge in one side of the "hairpin" to prevent slipping out of the catch) and a couple had tiny little wooden pegs.

What was actually the ISSUE fastener for the catch?

I believe that the little cotter pins are correct. They are usually long gone but I have found them twice on the company commander badges. Years ago I saw the regimental badge with not only a cotter pin but a small chain that prevented it's loss.

~Ed