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Flag of the Japan Self-Defense Forces and the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force: A sun disc design with 8 red rays extending outward, and a gold border partially around the edge. 1889–1945: Ensign of the Imperial Japanese Navy: Sun disc with 16 rays on a white field, with the disc skewed to the hoist. 1945–present
The Imperial Japanese Navy used the flag in the early 20th century as Japan colonized the Korean Peninsula, and invaded and occupied parts of China and other Asian countries until its defeat in World War II in 1945.
The Soviet–Japanese War [e] was a campaign of the Second World War that began with the Soviet invasion of Manchuria following the Soviet declaration of war against Japan on 8 August 1945.
A collection of flags captured during the Second World War sheds light on the tough close-quarter combat of the Burma campaign and provides some rare insights about soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army.
1 sty 2006 · Image Information. The Japanese units sent to New Guinea and the Solomons were almost universally wiped out, not by Allied combat action, but by disease and starvation. This flag, captured by Digger volunteer Australian soldiers in New Guinea, has the names of all the men in the unit this flag was issued to.
Celebration erupted when the first Marine patrol reached the summit of Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima on February 23, 1945, and raised a small American flag. A short while later, another detachment returned to the peak to replace the flag with a second, larger one.
From Pearl Harbor and the development of atomic bombs, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, VJ and VE Day and the events that followed summer 1945, below is a collection of stories mapping out milestones in Japan's role in the Second World War.
