Captured Flags

[Peter H]

A sought after item and a trophy of war.

From World War II on the Pacific Bison Books 1990.

This looks like a large Japanese Naval flag found on Saipan.

...the largest Japanese flag in captivity; eleven feet wide and seventeen feet long, discovered when Marines took refuge in a Japanese garrison barracks, during an artillery barrage at Tanapag Harbor. July 5, 1944..

[Peter H]

Photos from http://images.google.com/hosted/life

"Meatballs"

[Peter H]

From Time-Life again

[Peter H]

Soviets in Manchuria

[Peter H]

From Harlan Glenn's United States Marine Corps Uniforms, Insignia and Personal Items of World War II.

Tarawa

[Peter H]

Iwo Jima

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... o_Jima.jpg

[Peter H]

From: http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/imag ... 50479c.htm

Lieutenant General Thomas Holcomb, USMC,
Commandant of the Marine Corps shows President Franklin D. Roosevelt a Japanese Navy flag captured during the August 1942 Marine raid on Makin Island. Photographed at the White House in September 1942.

[Peter H]

From: http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Histo ... ley01.html

Gurkhas in Burma

[Peter H]

From: http://www.geocities.com/dutcheastindie ... matra.html

Dutch East Indies soldiers with a Japanese flag, which was captured near Palembang

[Peter H]

Japanese?

From: www.nirahlee.com

[Peter H]

From Time-Life

[Peter H]

From: http://www.historylink101.com/wwII_b-w/ ... index.html

Iwo Jima

[Peter H]

From the AWM

Australians,Balikpapan 1945.

[Peter H]

From: http://d21c.com/bgold5/indexA.html

Burma




From: http://www.kohimaeducationaltrust.net/about.htm

Kohima

[Peter H]

From: http://spclevents.com/ships/nev/nev.html

USS Nevada--"Kamikaze pilot's shroud"