Friday, September 10, 2010
日本贈 U 艇軍官記念牌
Gift of honour from the officers of the Imperial Japanese Submarine I-29
to the officers of the German U-boat Force
Plaque in the shape of a submarine war badge, cast metal with engraved outlines and details. The back inscribed with three lines in Japanese script, reading "In commemoration of the War in the Far East", "I-class Submarine 29" and "Showa 18, May" (May 1943). Approx. 156 x 118 mm.
With a wedding edition of "Mein Kampf" published by the city of Kiel and "More than Merchants" by Khoo Salma Nasution, a book dealing with the German colony in Penang, the submarine base located there, and German Monsoon U-boats. The latter with the portrayal and the history of the badge, which was discovered during the demolition of the "Eastern Smelting Company" in 1972.
I-29 was a blockade breaker boat and transported on its several voyages cargo as diverse as two tons of gold, latest weapons, confidential documents such as blueprints of the German V2, and important passengers. On 26th April 1943 she rendezvoused with the German U-180 off the coast of Mozambique to take over the Indian nationalist leader Subhas Chandra.
Plaque in the shape of a submarine war badge, cast metal with engraved outlines and details. The back inscribed with three lines in Japanese script, reading "In commemoration of the War in the Far East", "I-class Submarine 29" and "Showa 18, May" (May 1943). Approx. 156 x 118 mm.
With a wedding edition of "Mein Kampf" published by the city of Kiel and "More than Merchants" by Khoo Salma Nasution, a book dealing with the German colony in Penang, the submarine base located there, and German Monsoon U-boats. The latter with the portrayal and the history of the badge, which was discovered during the demolition of the "Eastern Smelting Company" in 1972.
I-29 was a blockade breaker boat and transported on its several voyages cargo as diverse as two tons of gold, latest weapons, confidential documents such as blueprints of the German V2, and important passengers. On 26th April 1943 she rendezvoused with the German U-180 off the coast of Mozambique to take over the Indian nationalist leader Subhas Chandra.
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