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A Japanese flag finally returns home, 80 years after World War II
she said the OBON Society has returned more than 600 World War II-era Japanese flags to soldiers’ families. She estimates there are probably another 50,000 good luck flags still unaccounted for ...
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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
By the time World War II ended in September 1945 ... [that] was the first American flag hoisted over Japanese soil.” The ...
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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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Flag sheds light on 1914 sea battle Japan waged against Germany
An appraisal by the German House showed the flag is a war ensign of the S90, a torpedo boat of the German East Asia Squadron, which fought against Imperial Japanese armed forces in the Chinese ...
Flags ordered at half-staff Saturday to remember attack on Pearl Harbor
President Joe Biden and Gov. Ron DeSantis have ordered flags lowered Saturday to honor those killed and injured during the ...
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Japan, POWs and the Geneva Conventions
White Flag and Red Cross In 1864 ... observe the Hague Convention of 1907 outlining the laws and customs of war. That Japanese forces did not strictly follow the Geneva Conventions is hardly ...