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.

He decided he would bring along a few hundred of Firebrand’s World War II-era 48-star flags. “We made the 48-star flag to honor the 80th anniversary of D-Day,” said Daniels.

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.

Great films have been made about the Civil War, World War I, Vietnam and Korea, yet World War II remains the campaign filmmakers and audiences return to again and again. Clint Eastwood's "Flags of ...

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.

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 ...

A flag from a World War II battleship was anonymously returned to a reporter in Reno, Nev., ... “As a country and a community, we’ve been having a rough couple of days,” he said, tearing up.

In the decades after World War II, the U.S. military became one of the most racially diverse institutions in the country and offered social mobility to generations of black Americans.

A family returns a treasured flag to a warrior who fought for Japan in World War II. The flag, named Yosegaki Hinomaru, was a 3-feet-by-3-feet Japanese flags signed and blessed by the soldier's ...

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 ...

His grandfather, Bernard Stein, served in World War II between 1942 and 1945 at the US Army boot camp at Camp Croft, South Carolina, then in the Philippines with the US Army’s 38th Infantry ...