A U.S. Army colonel’s great-grandson returned a “good luck” flag Wednesday to the family of a Japanese soldier who carried it ...
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.
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To Mark Japan's Surrender at the End of World War II, This Navy Officer Raced Halfway Around the World With a Historic Flag in Toweight days after Japanese Emperor Hirohito announced his nation’s surrender, Bremyer’s superior at the Messenger Mail Center ...
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 ...
For 78-year-old Tadamasa Fukiura they are much more ... "The hardest was actually the one used in our own flag -- red," he says. Japan's flag is white with a red circle in the middle.
In 2001, Kuge’s second son, Toshiya, a 20-year-old sophomore at Waseda University ... and sewed it on the white fabric to create a Japanese flag. Kuge left the homemade flag among the countless ...
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