Record #:

10836

Author(s):

Pleasant, Paul

Abstract:

The 500 men who will gather at Fontana, North Carolina August 27-30 will proudly display the flag that they made while prisoners of war during World War II. The flag, made from parachute cloth that was dropped into the prison camp, was the first flag to fly over Japan since December 7, 1941. Most of the men were held at the Omine Machi prison camp, but other attendees will represent approximately one third of the survivors of the Bataan Death March and of Corregidor.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 35 Issue 5, Aug 1967, p9-10, il

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--World War, 1939-1945--Veterans