A flag carried by a Japanese soldier killed in action during World War II was handed over Thursday by the USS Lexington Museum in Texas to a nonprofit organization for return to the man’s family.

He decided he would bring along a few hundred of Firebrand’s World War II-era 48-star flags. “We made the 48-star flag to honor the 80th anniversary of D-Day,” said Daniels.

The grandson of a World War II veteran tracked down the Japanese family connected to a flag his grandfather brought back from war. "I was always fascinated by it as a child," said the grandson.

To commemorate the fallen United States service members and CHamorus during World War II (1941-1944), 1,880 U.S. flags and 1,170 Guam flags will line the fields of Asan park from May 25–28 as ...

Passed down after Bernard Stein's death, the flag was a remnant of World War II, brought home as a war trophy by his grandfather, who served in the US Army's 38th Infantry Division.

Japanese Americans in Colorado signed World War II-era American flags that will be displayed in a museum in San Jose, California. To stream 9NEWS on your phone, you need the 9NEWS app.

A flag carried by a Japanese soldier killed in action during World War II was handed over Thursday by the USS Lexington Museum in Texas to a nonprofit organization for return to the man’s family.