The flag was captured on Bougainville Island in 1944 by American and North Dakotan Charles Simonson. The plaque states that it was originally a battle flag, but the artifact was misidentified.

A flag resolution was adopted 248 years ago, on June 14, 1777, that said, "Resolved: that the flag of the United States be made of 13 stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be 13 stars, ...

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TOKYO — A Japanese flag, brought to America by a U.S. soldier who served in the Philippines during World War II, has returned home. The signature-covered flag was taken as a war trophy by the ...

Video shows the New York Mets “showed a Pride flag instead of the American flag” during the national anthem. Fans are threatening MLB boycotts over broad stripes and bright stars — or what they ...

Five months after the U.S. Marines conquered the closest island to mainland Japan, at the cost of roughly 7,000 American lives and 18,000 Japanese ones, freshly dug graves wreathed Iwo Jima’s ...

The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) said the policy – which it traced to a May executive order titled “Restoring ...

Flag signed by 189 American soldiers in Japan in 1945. ... an unknown soldier — we still don’t know who it was — got one of these Japanese flags after a battle,” Haley said.

I was 12 and I saw adults crying with joy and relief. Then I saw it: an oily American flag on the stern of an old American tanker. I had not seen an American flag flying freely for at least two years.

A pro-Donald Trump march took place in the Japanese city of Osaka at the weekend. Participants in the event wore MAGA caps and carried a giant mikoshi – a portable statue or shrine often part of ...

JAPAN, — A World War II-era "good luck" flag has finally made its way home, thanks to the kindness and determination of U.S. Army veteran Chris Dorsey. Dorsey, from Dahlonega, Georgia, was going ...

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.