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.

Bernard Stein never talked about his combat experiences in Southeast Asia during World War II, but he’d brought the flag home as a war trophy after fighting with the U.S. Army’s 38th Infantry ...

In 1944, 21-year-old Tokichi Shimizu, a Japanese soldier stationed on the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific, headed into battle. The young man carried with him a Japanese flag from his ...

Japanese soldier Shigeyoshi Mutsuda's good luck flag had been aboard the USS Lexington Museum on the Bay in Corpus Christi, Texas, since 1994. OBON Society, a nonprofit that repatriates flags to ...

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 ...

Military Appreciation Rare Japanese 'Good Luck Flag' to be returned to soldier's family "I'd never seen anything like it before," said Alex Forist, Chief Curator, Grand Rapids Public Museum.

HIGASHISHIRAKAWA, Japan — The former U.S. Marine knew the calligraphy-covered flag he took from a fallen Japanese soldier 73 years ago was more than a keepsake of World War II.

Marvin Strombo, who had taken the calligraphy-covered Japanese flag from a dead soldier at a World War II island battlefield 73 years ago, returned it Tuesday to the family of Sadao Yasue.

ROBBINSVILLE -- Since 2001, a Robbinsville woman held onto a Japanese flag her father brought back from World War II, never knowing how he got it but was always curious about the signatures on 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.