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Lot 162

Iwo Jima. A captured Imperial Japanese Army flag
Captured February 23, 1945

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22 February 2013, 13:00 EST
New York

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Iwo Jima. A captured Imperial Japanese Army flag
Captured February 23, 1945

With leather corners and ties at the luff, the flag annotated in ink 'Taken from a dead Jap Iwo Jima Feb 23 1945', The flag presumably folded inside a uniform, with several stains of varying sizes, a few small holes.
38 x 52 in. (96.5 x 132 cm.)

Footnotes

Exhibited:
The Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, New York, 1995-2007

Provenance:
The War Museum

Captured on the same day as the Flag raising on Mount Suribachi.

Saleroom notices

The phrase "ties at the luff" should read "ties at the hoist."

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