Recent content by Lightning14

This is a project for a rainy day,

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Thanks very much - I could use this as well as I have three unidentified swords (one is only a shin gunto sword). If you have a video regarding how to re-wrap the silk tape wrapping, would appreciate it.

I believe, from my internet research, that the return of swords whose owners can be identified is increasing - in fact some of them by the very veterans who took them (now increasingly aged) - who wish to personally return them. I have a friend with two swords inherited (from his grandfather...

I have been traveling and just saw this. Actually, before my uncle died 2 years ago I asked him several times about the potential of my returning the flag and his reaction was...well, typical of his generation, especially those who saw a great deal of combat against the Japanese and lost many...

OK thanks - just wanted to check before the flag is turned over to the OBON 2015 researchers for potential return to Japan. Thanks again - Chuck

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Shinpachi - there isn't an identifying town, school, or workplace on this is there? Regards

Thanks - it provides me a great deal of satisfaction.

Again, wow. I sincerely appreciate the extra effort you put into annotating the photographs as it will aid me in discussing it with others. Interesting - I wonder why the "fob" was carried all those years (if issued in 1934). Perhaps the original soldier-owner was present in Manchukuo at the...

Shinpachi: My apologies for presuming upon your time - I didn't mean to. It's just that this was something I have been trying without success to address for several years and perhaps I got a bit too enthusiastic when you solved it. There is certainly no rush, please address if and when you...

Wow - thanks very much! I've been trying to get it translated for years but for some reason the two previous times I tried the folks I asked appeared to be reluctant, perhaps because of the "Destroy UK and US" and similar sentiments. Is there a chance that the original owner's name is on the...

Shinpachi - I am new as of today but have noted in internet research that you have translated flags for others so I am seeking you out. I have three flags, two of which I believe are likely post-WWII GI souvenirs but a third I know the provenance of (my uncle) and it is definitely the real...