Original Japanese WWII Rising Sun Army War Cloth Flag (41" x 32") French Holster with most of the paint

with most of the paint intact

was considered a "flag officer"

then Captain Leon M Williamson was one of those pilots

Chris Ellis

Grade of lieutenant

Original Japanese WWII Rising Sun Army War Cloth Flag (41" x 32") French Holster with most of the paintOriginal Item: Only One Available. The Rising Sun Flag ( Kyokujitsu ki) design was originally used by feudal warlords in Japan during the Edo period. On May 15, 1870, as a policy of the Meiji government, it was adopted as the war flag of the Imperial Japanese Army, and on October 7, 1889, it was adopted as the naval ensign of the Imperial Japanese Navy (Naval flags have the sun off center to the left). With the sun in the center, this is a flag of the