NORTH ATTLEBORO — Officials at the North Attleboro Newell-Blais VFW Post 443 are trying to solve a mystery. For years, a tattered Japanese “rising sun” flag has hung in a frame on a wall of the ...
TOKYO >> Toshihiro Mutsuda was only 5 years old when he last saw his father, who was drafted by Japan’s Imperial Army in 1943 and killed in action. For him, his father was a bespectacled man in an old ...
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” ...