U.S. Marines raised an American flag on the Japanese island’s highest peak exactly 80 years ago. But the fighting, some of ...

“We knew that the right thing to do would be to send the flag home, to be in Japan and to the family.” The soldier's eldest son, Toshihiro Mutsuda, was speechless for a few seconds when ...

A U.S. Army colonel’s great-grandson returned a “good luck” flag Wednesday to the family of a Japanese soldier who carried it ...

2, 1945. The group had kept the U.S. flag hidden in a mine where they were forced by Japanese soldiers to toil. "My dad and a couple of other guys took the Japanese flag down," said Avery Cox's ...

2, 1945. The group had kept the U.S. flag hidden in a mine where they were forced by Japanese soldiers to toil. What: Exhibit titled Flags of Freedom: Honoring the 80th Anniversary of the ...