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An Atascadero couple discovered a flag carried by a Japanese soldier killed during World War II in a local antique shop.

A “Good Luck” flag was donated and placed on display aboard the USS Lexington Museum for almost three decades, but now it has made its journey to Japan to be formally reunited with the family.

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 mans family.

Known as a Good Luck Flag, it is covered with the signatures of Shigeyoshi Mutsuda, his family and friends.

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.

A U.S. naval museum is set to return a wartime Japanese soldier's flag to the family of its original owner nearly 78 years after the end of World War II, after removing it from the exhibition.

Known as a Good Luck Flag, it was displayed for 29 years at the USS Lexington Museum in Corpus Christi, Texas.

A flag that belonged to a fallen Japanese soldier during World War II will be returned to his family after being kept on display at the USS Lexington Museum in Corpus Christi, Texas, for 29 years. Return of the flag: The Japanese Good Luck Flag repatriation ceremony was held on the Hangar Bay of the WWII aircraft carrier-turned-museum on Thursday. The Obon Society, a non-profit organization that has already helped repatriate over 500 flags back to Japanese families over the past 13 years, will...

Known as a Good Luck Flag, it is covered with the signatures of Shigeyoshi Mutsuda, his family and friends.

Known as a Good Luck Flag, it was displayed for 29 years at the USS Lexington Museum in Corpus Christi, Texas.