[Milsurplus] Japanese Aircraft Key, 8-10-2010

[C.Whitaker]

de WB2CPN
"Given out to the troops..."   Nice myth.  Never happened.
Troops in the field had no personal property, (legally).
Smuggling back in the troop ship was sometimes impossible,
other times easy.  
That Japanese marking was similiar in application to the
Crown on the Brit and others of His Majesty's forces.
Look at the 522 and the BC-639 etc.
73  Clete