Diploma of the Order of the Rising Sun, 6th Class, presented to Boleslaw Orlinski in Tokyo on 7 September 1926 by the Japanese Minister of War, General Kazushige Ugaki.
Boleslaw Orlinski (1899-1992) was one of the most outstanding Polish aviators of the interwar period. Until 1928, he was a military pilot, and subsequently worked as a test pilot at the State Aviation Works in Warsaw until the outbreak of World War II. He became famous for a multi-stage flight from Warsaw to Tokyo and back, covering a total distance of 22,600 km, carried out together with Sergeant Mechanic Leonard Kubiak between 27 August and 25 September 1926 in a serial French reconnaissance-bomber Breguet XIXA2.
