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| Tango01 | 19 Dec 2017 12:04 p.m. PST |
…Japanese soldier. "When U.S. Marine Marvin Strombo found a Japanese flag on the body of an enemy soldier during World War Two, he took and promised to one day return it to the family of his fallen foe. That vow was fulfilled on Tuesday, exactly 72 years after Japan's surrender, when Strombo, 93, handed the flag to the brother and sisters of Sadao Yasue. Yasue, the eldest of six children from a farming town in central Japan, followed a common practice of carrying into battle a Japanese flag covered with messages and the signatures of family and friends. Strombo said he found the flag on Yasue's body after a 1944 battle on the island of Saipan, the site of fierce fighting in the Pacific war…"
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| Combat Colours | 19 Dec 2017 1:17 p.m. PST |
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| Durban Gamer | 20 Dec 2017 5:02 a.m. PST |
A fine man to keep that promise and travel at his age. His kinds of values are part of what inspires us historical gamers to discover, respect and remember courage and decency in the long distant past. |
| Tango01 | 20 Dec 2017 11:53 a.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it my friend!. (smile) Amicalement
Armand |
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