Rare Japanese Imperial Navy Bombardment Badge! - UPDATED

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Detectingfreak

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Re: Rare Japanese Imperial Navy Bombardment Badge!

awesome find! You should check to see if the navy anchor on the medal is gold!
 

RiverRat3

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Re: Rare Japanese Imperial Navy Bombardment Badge!

Cool but different find.
 

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Re: Rare Japanese Imperial Navy Bombardment Badge!

Outstanding find, I'm hitting the banner button!


Chris
 

d-dub

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Re: Rare Japanese Imperial Navy Bombardment Badge!

Banner!

I can't believe how sweet that thing turned out to be. When you dug that out, we were both thinking some junk jewelry pin. Awesome to see that it was much, much, more.

Congrats, bud!
 

watercolor

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Re: Rare Japanese Imperial Navy Bombardment Badge!

WOW Jon!! What are the chances of finding something like this? :thumbsup:

Especially around the area you found it. . . seems totally out of character but,
as I'm sure we've all learned, you can always expect to find the unexpected :wink:.

Awesome find!
 

jgas

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Re: Rare Japanese Imperial Navy Bombardment Badge!

Just out of curiosity, what would the numbers be for at the bottom of the right shell? It appears to be a 1 9 or 1 6?? :icon_scratch: Maybe it was stamped for the number that was given out. Who knows. Or maybe it is soemthing I am just seeing and it is really not there. Nice find though, and I would gather that it is quite rare. Lets see if we can get this verified and get this on the Banner! :thumbsup: jgas
 

rogues71

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Re: Rare Japanese Imperial Navy Bombardment Badge!

wow great find time to hit some research and compair to known pics
 

davebien

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Re: Rare Japanese Imperial Navy Bombardment Badge!

Now, THAT is a find and here in the Chicago area no less !!!!! Warmer weather Thurs they say. I may just try to get out. :hello2:
 

DPBOB

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Re: Rare Japanese Imperial Navy Bombardment Badge!

Jon

Banner Find......Post some links when all is proven how "rare" ...
To find it in Illinois " That is awesome "
 

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Re: Rare Japanese Imperial Navy Bombardment Badge!

jgas said:
Just out of curiosity, what would the numbers be for at the bottom of the right shell? It appears to be a 1 9 or 1 6?? :icon_scratch: Maybe it was stamped for the number that was given out. Who knows. Or maybe it is soemthing I am just seeing and it is really not there. Nice find though, and I would gather that it is quite rare. Lets see if we can get this verified and get this on the Banner! :thumbsup: jgas

I haven't paid that much attention to that as I was too excited. I will check and see if there is actually something on the right shell.
 

IronSpike

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Re: Rare Japanese Imperial Navy Bombardment Badge!

Banner Badge :icon_king:
 

pepperj

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Re: Rare Japanese Imperial Navy Bombardment Badge!

Now that's a real cool piece of history, great recovery! :icon_thumright:
The votes in!
 

Deepdiger60

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Re: Rare Japanese Imperial Navy Bombardment Badge!

A very unique find for IL. most likely a World War II vet brought it home after the war as a survivor Great find HH Jim
 

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Re: Rare Japanese Imperial Navy Bombardment Badge!

Very nice rare find , a vet bring home . Definitely,a great WW2 story with this badge that, unfortunately ,we'll never hear :icon_scratch: ..Hats off to all the BRAVE ..South Pacific ,CBI vets who avenged PEARL HARBOR :icon_salut: VOTE BANNER Congrats, lookn4seated :icon_pirat:
 

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Re: Rare Japanese Imperial Navy Bombardment Badge!

That badge came a long way for sure. I'd say if it's real that it's a rare find for sure. By the looks I'd say real. My vote is in too :hello2:
 

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Re: Rare Japanese Imperial Navy Bombardment Badge!

zaxfire69 said:
Here ya go lookn4seated. Found this site for you. Don't know if you found it yet. I vote Banner for you. That is way cool.. :hello2:

http://p2.hostingprod.com/@imperialjapanmedalsandbadges.com/navybadges2nd.html

I found a site where your Japanese Gunnery Proficiency Badge sold for $395.00...That is an awesome find...
I am a serious internet research dude...
http://www.germanmilitaria.com/Japanese/photos/J006359.html

Thanks for the time and research to come up with that. I found some other sites, but not as good as the ones you found.
 

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Lookn4Seated

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Thanks everyone for your nice comments.
 

zaxfire69

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Heck yeah man. You are welcome. This post made my day. Some more history saved. :headbang: :hello2:
 

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