she said the OBON Society has returned more than 600 World War II-era Japanese flags to soldiers’ families. She estimates there are probably another 50,000 good luck flags still unaccounted for ...
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Air University repatriates WWII era Japanese flag
Like many World War II veterans, U.S. Army Cpl. Arthur G. Thompson, serving with the 117th Engineer Regiment, returned home ...
The flag was donated in 1994 and displayed at the museum aboard the USS Lexington, a WWII aircraft carrier ... to the descendants of Japanese servicemembers killed in the war.
A flag carried by a Japanese soldier killed in action during World War II was handed over Thursday by the USS Lexington Museum in Texas to a nonprofit organization for return to the man’s family.
World War II veteran Marvin Strombo traveled 10,000 miles from his quiet home in Montana to the land of the rising sun to personally return a Japanese flag he had taken from Sadao Yasue during the ...
People across the United States have been mailing Japanese flags to an office in Oregon. The banners are “heirlooms” kept by American families over the decades. Many are from World War Two ...