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New exhibit features flags from Japanese POW camp that held New Mexico Bataan survivors
The museum will showcase flags central to the liberation of American soldiers who were kept prisoners of war following the ...
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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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New exhibit features flags from Japanese POW camp that held New Mexico Bataan survivors
The Japanese flag once flew at Fukuoka 17, a prisoner-of-war camp in Japan. Avery Cox, then a young man from Southern New Mexico, was among those who lowered the flag and replaced it with an ...