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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNTo Mark Japan's Surrender at the End of World War II, This Navy Officer Raced Halfway Around the World With a Historic Flag in TowAs was customary during any visit to a foreign land, Perry’s flagship flew all of its colors, including a new hand-sewn, ...
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 ...
A U.S. Army colonel’s great-grandson returned a “good luck” flag Wednesday to the family of a Japanese soldier who carried it ...
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.
World War II ended 75 years ago, but not all countries commemorate it on the same day. Wednesday is the anniversary of the formal Sept. 2, 1945, surrender of Japan to the United States ...
"During World War Two, the company was making national flags for the war. The company boss told me he was so happy to make them for peace this time. It was truly significant for all Japanese to ...
At the 2017 Antiques Roadshow in New Orleans, Arms & Militaria expert Jeff Shrader appraised this World War II-era flag — which ... that PT-109 collided with a Japanese destroyer and exploded?
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 ...
More than 60 people signed an American flag that bears more than 500 names ... rights because as we’ve seen during World War II, the government made a decision to bypass the Constitution and ...
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