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Army veteran returns WWII ‘good luck’ flag to Japanese soldier’s family
A U.S. Army colonel’s great-grandson returned a “good luck” flag Wednesday to the family of a Japanese soldier who carried it ...
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A flag carried by a Japanese soldier killed during World War II is returning to his family
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.
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A 93-year-old World War II veteran returned a fallen Japanese soldier's flag to his family
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 ...
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It’s a miracle, say family of Japanese soldier killed in WWII, as flag returns from U.S.
Toshihiro Mutsuda was only 5 years old when he last saw his father, who was drafted by ... The flag was donated in 1994 and displayed at the museum aboard the USS Lexington, a WWII aircraft ...
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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 Tow
As was customary during any visit to a foreign land, Perry’s flagship flew all of its colors, including a new hand-sewn, ...
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Flag project recalls Japanese internment camps, one signature at a time
More than 60 people signed an American flag that bears more than 500 names ... constitutional rights because as we’ve seen during World War II, the government made a decision to bypass the ...
New exhibit features flags from Japanese POW camp that held New Mexico Bataan survivors
The weather-beaten flag bears the names of men who endured the infamous Bataan Death March and rode the "hell ships" to Japan, defying the odds by their survival. They lived long enough, at least, to ...
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New exhibit features flags from Japanese POW camp that held New Mexico Bataan survivors
The weather-beaten flag bears the names of men who ... after the fall of the Bataan Peninsula when World War II remained in its infancy. The Japanese flag once flew at Fukuoka 17, a prisoner ...