Two Long Island historical memorabilia collectors say they will turn over 41 flags carried by Japanese servicemen in World War II — the only trace of some soldiers whose bodies were never recovered — ...

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 ...

U.S. Army veteran Chris Dorsey returns a WWII good luck flag to a fallen Japanese soldier’s family, bringing closure and ...

Students at Comsewogue High School in the Comsewogue School District have joined a cross-cultural humanitarian effort to ...

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 ...

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 photo standing by a signed good-luck flag that he carried to war.

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 ...

The Pentagon said that the page and others, which were removed under the Trump administration’s wide-ranging crackdown on ...