Original WWII Japanese Silk Named Trench Art Flag - 89th Field Artillery Battalion U.S. Civil War ripcord and D ring are

ripcord and D ring are no longer present

Bacon became a Prisoner of War

with only the cipher on the reverse distinguishing the two - an "FG" for Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and a "GFC" for Schwarzburg-Sondershausen

Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII)

textured board

Original WWII Japanese Silk Named Trench Art Flag - 89th Field Artillery Battalion U.S. Civil War ripcord and D ring areOriginal Item: One of a kind. This is a WW2 Imperial Japanese silk flag that measures 28? x 32?. It was captured by a USGI in the 89th Field Artillery Battalion then hand painted in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. The flag documents the movement of the 89th Field Artillery Battalion who first saw action at GUADALCANAL in the first wave of attacks against the Japanese. The flag reads as follows: ALLEN STURGEON 89th F. A. BN A. P. O. 25 (Image of a