A few dozen Cedar City residents got to view a rare piece of history on Friday when a Japanese flag signed by 189 American soldiers during World War II made its way to the library. It's a flag that ...
WWII veteran Marvin Strombo, right, and Tatsuya Yasue, 89-year-old farmer, hold a Japanese flag with autographed messages which was owned by his brother Sadao Yasue, who was killed in the Pacific ...
The delicate flag was recently spread on a kitchen counter in the Santa Rosa Valley, east of Camarillo, as three friends pondered its origins. Messages in Japanese were written on the silk around the ...
TOKYO — A Japanese flag, brought to America by a U.S. Navy sailor from the Battle of Okinawa, has been returned to the family of the soldier who carried it into battle more than three quarters of a ...
A flag carried by a Japanese soldier killed in action during World War II was handed over today by the USS Lexington Museum in Texas to a nonprofit organization for return to the man’s family. Known ...
HIGASHISHIRAKAWA, Japan-- Tatsuya Yasue buried his face into the flag and smelled it. Then he held the 93-year-old hands that brought this treasure home, and kissed them. Marvin Strombo, who had taken ...
REDSTONE ARSENAL, Alabama -- A family shows ultimate respect to a once bitter enemy by returning a flag that had been lost more for more than 70 years. Billy G. Traweek, range engineer and ground ...
GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- A rare Japanese “Good Luck” peace flag has been returned to its rightful owners from a West Michigan veteran’s family. The World War II U.S. Marine veteran’s son presented the flag ...
Toshihiro Mutsuda was only 5 years old when he last saw his father, 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 ...
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