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This is a story about three men, from three branches of the military, all connected by a powerful piece of patriotism.
Flags in Iowa will be at half-staff on Saturday, June 28, in honor of a World War II veteran whose remains had been missing ...
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 ...
Passed down after Bernard Stein's death, the flag was a remnant of World War II, brought home as a war trophy by his grandfather, who served in the US Army's 38th Infantry Division.
The grandson of a World War II veteran tracked down the Japanese family connected to a flag his grandfather brought back from war. "I was always fascinated by it as a child," said the grandson.
Recently, COL. Martin Sikora, Defense, Military, Naval, and Air Attache of the Czech Republic and his Assistant CW4 Michal Danis traveled to Hoosick Falls from the Embassy of the Czech Republic in … ...
TURBOTVILLE — An exhibition of 31 classic World War II flags is on display in the upstairs two rooms of the Turbotville Community Hall, 6 to 8:30 p.m. as part of Turbotville’s annual carnival.
Now, California resident Tom Hodges hopes the flag his father sent home during the war can be returned to the soldier’s family in Japan. Hodges, 85, had been trying to find someone to take the ...
FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. — For Missouri resident Mike Siegmund, the American flag flown over Fort Leonard Wood on Oct. 7 held significant importance — it was his father Robert’s internment flag.
New Yorker Scott Stein inherited a "Yosegaki Hinomaru" banner, also known as a good luck flag, from his grandfather — who served the United States during World War II.
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 ...