The Rising Flag Sun is flown aboard the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's Osumi LST-class amphibious transport dock ship Kunisaki, May 27, 2014, in Yokosuka, Japan. The flag's controversial ...

In August 1945, John K. Bremyer undertook a 124-hour, 9,000-mile journey to Tokyo Bay, where he delivered the flag flown by Commodore Matthew Perry in 1853 to Admiral William Halsey's USS "Missouri" ...

Here are six reasons why the battle is so important to Marines: 1. It Was the First Invasion of the Japanese Home Islands. The Japanese Empire controlled many islands in the Pacific area.

The USS Lexington Museum in Texas handed over a Japanese soldier's Good Luck Flag, carried during World War II, to a nonprofit organization for its return to the man's family.

MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Ala. — Like many World War II veterans, U.S. Army Cpl. Arthur G. Thompson, serving with the 117th Engineer Regiment, returned home with souvenirs from his time at war ...