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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.
The Good Luck Flag (寄せ書き日の丸, yosegaki hinomaru) was a traditional gift for Japanese servicemen deployed during the military campaigns of the Empire of Japan, most notably during World War II. The flag was typically a national flag signed by friends and family, often with short messages wishing the soldier victory, safety and good ...
The flag, known as “Yosegaki Hinomaru,” or Good Luck Flag, carries the soldier's name, Shigeyoshi Mutsuda, and the signatures of his relatives, friends and neighbors wishing him luck.
S. Sandler World War II in the Pacific: An Encyclopedia (Military History of the United States) (2000) Routledge ISBN 0-8153-1883-9; James J. Fahey Pacific War Diary, 1942–1945: The Secret Diary of an American Sailor (1992) Houghton Mifflin ISBN 0-395-64022-9; Smith, Robert Ross (1963). Triumph in the Philippines (PDF). U.S. Army in World War ...
I Am Alive!: A United States Marine's Story of Survival in a World war II Japanese POW Camp. Presidio Press. ISBN 0-345-44911-8. Morris, Eric (2000). Corregidor: The American Alamo of World War II. Cooper Square Press. ISBN 0-8154-1085-9. Morton, Louis (1993). The Fall of the Philippines. U.S. Army in World War II: The War in the Pacific.
Teary eyes filled the room as 93-year-old World War II veteran Marvin Strombo handed the flag of a fallen Japanese soldier to his brother and sister.
The flag of Okinawa Prefecture (Japanese: 沖縄県旗, Hepburn: Okinawa-ken ki, Okinawan: Uchināchin hata) is a white field charged in the center with the prefectural emblem, which consists of three circles stacked on top of each other. The two inner circles are positioned upwards; the outermost and innermost circles are red and the middle ...
The Battalion sailed from San Francisco on 21 November 1941 assigned to the Philippines, but with the outbreak of World War II in the Pacific the convoy was rerouted to Brisbane, Australia. After Christmas in Brisbane, the Battalion sailed again on a Dutch freighter, arriving on the island of Java on 11 January 1942 with 558 men. The 2nd ...