Original WWII Imperial Japanese Rising Sun Army War Flag with Original Paper Label and Ties - 26" x 33" Lewis Gun the Big Red One moved

the Big Red One moved into the Picardy Sector to bolster the exhausted French First Army

in late May

In August 1924 it reported for duty with the Scouting Fleet and took part in tactical exercises

on the same machines and by some of the very same people that produced them for Germany in WWII

It is also marked with mold number 5

Original WWII Imperial Japanese Rising Sun Army War Flag with Original Paper Label and Ties - 26" x 33" Lewis Gun the Big Red One movedOriginal 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