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 ...

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.

My grandfather, Edward Mobbs, joined the Royal Engineers aged 21 at the outbreak of World War II. He spent most ... bridges destroyed buy the Japanese. This Japanese flag was amongst the things ...