World War II

JAPANESE RELIC RETURNED TO SON OF FALLEN SOLDIER

THEY WERE MEANT to bring good fortune to Japanese soldiers going off to battle. Instead, the Good Luck Flags—often wound up in American attics or dens, war souvenirs taken off the hundreds of thousands who fell in places like Tarawa and the Solomon Islands and never made it back to

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