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 ...
Like many World War II veterans, U.S. Army Cpl. Arthur G. Thompson, serving with the 117th Engineer Regiment, returned home ...
“We knew that the right thing to do would be to send the flag home, to be in Japan and to the family.” The soldier's eldest son, Toshihiro Mutsuda, was speechless for a few seconds when ...
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 of ... roads and bridges destroyed buy the Japanese. This Japanese flag was amongst ...
More than 60 people signed an American flag that bears more than 500 names ... rights because as we’ve seen during World War II, the government made a decision to bypass the Constitution and ...
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 ...