Period of World War II appears on military uniform of a few Japan " M " model accord with mark, its are formal the name is " hill bosom chapter " , utility is divisional army the identity of officer of department of different troops division.
Troops division department is bright the system that when treating army of times old Japan to build, comes from western ship, simple for, it is the different and professional arms of service in army and branch, inchoate and main it is a pace, ride, prepare Chinese medicine by roasting it in a panbig gun, engineer, different arm of services and professional set have identify color, a few different position in military uniform (the place such as chapter of chapter of the collar badge of such as formal attire, front of a garment, armband, pants, the identifying that seams division of photogenic Ying Bing is lubricious, in order to distinguish the professional identity of different officer) .
Arrived clear and times, japanese army made 1938 " M " model hill bosom chapter, use at army officer to adorn installing (understandable be is constant formal attire) on use, do not have red only merely, have actually at first amount to 11 kinds of color, the corresponding concern of all sorts of color is as follows:
Gules: Infantry division, take the color of blood.
Green: Cavalry division, take color of the floral on the earth.
Yellow: Artillerist division, take the color of the smoke of gunpowder when artillery blasts off.
Black: Military police division, take the color of aerospace.
Brown: Engineer division, take edaphic color.
Blue: Division of troops of supplies and gear of an army
Purple: Vet troops division
White: Manager troops division
Bottle green: Wholesome division
Blue: Martial music division
Sky-blue: Air arm division
On September 3, 1940, japanese army abolished afore-mentioned troops division identifies lubricious design, implicative and reach, m after Zhang Zaiyan add uses the chest for some time (there is department of technical ministry, Ministry of Public Health, vet only actually after 1940, army learn ministry, manger department to still use hill bosom rule, consequently gules pectoral chapter has been done not have right now) , abolish entirely at the beginning of 1942.
