Two Long Island historical memorabilia collectors say they will turn over 41 flags carried by Japanese servicemen in World ...

U.S. Army veteran Chris Dorsey returns a WWII good luck flag to a fallen Japanese soldier’s family, bringing closure and ...

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 ...

Marines were particularly interested in Japanese “good luck flags,” which bore well wishes from friends ... It gave me pause about how stupid it was to be engaged in this kind of activity (war).” ...

who was drafted by Japan's Imperial Army in 1943 and killed in action. For him, his father was a bespectacled man in an old family photo standing by a signed good-luck flag that he carried to war.

Japanese war poems are naturally written in the stilted ... High on our glittering silver wings, <BR> We carry the flag of the Rising Sun, <BR> And wherever we may soar, <BR> No sign of enemy ...

An appraisal by the German House showed the flag is a war ensign of the S90, a torpedo boat of the German East Asia Squadron, which fought against Imperial Japanese armed forces in the Chinese ...

However, for the two Koreas, China, Myanmar, Malaysia, and other Asian nations, it is a symbol of the war atrocities committed by Japanese forces in the past. That is why flying the flag at the ...

Two Long Island historical memorabilia collectors say they will turn over 41 flags carried by Japanese servicemen in World War II — the only trace of some soldiers whose bodies were never ...