Did Japanese & Russian Ships or Squadrons have Emblems or Crests?

[freebird]

Did Japanese Ships & Squadrons have individual Emblems or Crests?

I have been looking but I have not found any answers.

I know the British had them for ships, squadrons & armies, as did the US & the Germans I think

Did the Russians & Japanese too?


Crests pictured below:


HMS Avenger, RAF "Eagle Squadron", British 1st Army

[Catch22]

I think Russian Squadrons had crests, as I've seen crests on the side of their planes, as for the Japanese I'm not sure, but they did have (towards the end of the war) unique tail markings gor each unit, such as a blue arrow. I will do some more hunting.

[Catch22]

Here we are! This is a Lavochin La-5 from the 3rd GvIAP, Baltic Fleet flown by Cpt. Georgy Dmitrievich Kostylev in 1943. I will keep looking for Japanese crests. On the side of the plane there is a crest, though it MIGHT be a crest for an award this pilot has won, but I'm pretty sure it's not. If there's a correction to be made, by all means, make it.



From Wings Palette, but I had to re-host it.

EDIT: Nothing doing for the Japanese, sorry!

[freebird]

Originally Posted by Catch22

Here we are! This is a Lavochin La-5 from the 3rd GvIAP, Baltic Fleet flown by Cpt. Georgy Dmitrievich Kostylev in 1943. I will keep looking for Japanese crests. On the side of the plane there is a crest, though it MIGHT be a crest for an award this pilot has won, but I'm pretty sure it's not. If there's a correction to be made, by all means, make it.



From Wings Palette, but I had to re-host it.

EDIT: Nothing doing for the Japanese, sorry!

Thanks Catch, I think the crest might be the VVS {peoples air defence?}

I hope that Shinpachi will have some info, he seems to know lots about the Japanese. I'm sure there are internet references, but probably not in English...

[Catch22]

You're certainly welcome! Here's what I meant by the tail markings for the Japanese:



Also from Wings Palette, this Ki-84 "Frank" is from the HQ chutai, 29th Sentai in Taiwan. Don't ask me what that means, because I don't have a clue!

[freebird]

It seems that the Japanese did not have them...

Thanks Shipachi!

I wonder if they had any kind of "Army Banner", I seem to remember that they did in the days of the Samurai?

Originally Posted by Shinpachi

Hi freebird.

As long as I know there were no such crests or emblems.
Please try checking the following sight.

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This is the biggest collection site of IJA/IJN uniforms and accessories.

Nice day

[Wayne Little]

Japanese Army Air Force "Squadrons" in some cases carried stylised emblems to signify their Sentai...

here is an example does this qualify?

Ki-45 of the 53rd Sentai the stylised "53" emblem on the tail...

Sourced from the internet, i cannot recall exactly where?...

[kaigunair]

the yamato had a very large 16 pedal chrysanthemom on the bow of the ship, but I think other ships had this on them.

The kikusui airgroup had this emblem (floating chrysanthemum) on the tail, and mini subs also used this emblem. But not exactly a squandron crest per se.