U.S. Army veteran Chris Dorsey returns a WWII good luck flag to a fallen Japanese soldier’s family, bringing closure and ...
Two Long Island historical memorabilia collectors say they will turn over 41 flags carried by Japanese servicemen in World ...
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 ...
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.
The Obon Society, an Oregon-based nonprofit that helps U.S. veterans and their families return old war trophies such as flags and swords, along with the Japan Bereaved Families Association ...
Millions of Japanese soldiers carried the flags, known as Yosegaki Hinomaru or ... of war — a practice they pointed out is probably as old as war itself — or on the families who kept them.