Bob Hudson Posted November 7, 2012 Share #1 Posted November 7, 2012 Picked this up from the family last night. He commanded the Americal Division in the Philippines and accepted the Japanese forces surrender at Cebu. He received his third star in post-war when he became commander US Forces Austria. To help establish provenance, I took a photo of his son with the flag: Father: Son: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RustyCanteen Posted November 7, 2012 Share #2 Posted November 7, 2012 Very nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CNY Militaria Posted November 7, 2012 Share #3 Posted November 7, 2012 Great piece! Did he have any other of his father's items? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Hudson Posted November 7, 2012 Author Share #4 Posted November 7, 2012 Great piece! Did he have any other of his father's items? Not that he would get rid of: he's moving from a large house on Coronado to a much smaller place in Michigan and is taking along medals, photos, and some other items. Apparently he got rid of some other stuff a while back, but found this while cleaning out a storage area in the house. His father--in-law was also a USMA graduate (Class of 1920) and I got a bunch of his stuff including documents from his time on MacArthur's GHQ staff in WWII, a batch of Tiffany Bronze insignia, and some USMA items. Now for the Lt. General. there was this smaller flag, on used on automobiles I believe: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Hudson Posted November 7, 2012 Author Share #5 Posted November 7, 2012 Here's the provenance sheet for this: The backside of the provenance sheet has the photos and bio info for father and son shown above. Now this flag actually was presented to Gen. Arnold in retirement, based on the date stamped onside the sleeve: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugme Posted November 7, 2012 Share #6 Posted November 7, 2012 What an extremely neat item with a great history behind it. Seems like a lot of rare items are starting to pop up on a regular basis. Might have something to do with the children of WWII vets hitting retirement age. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Hudson Posted November 8, 2012 Author Share #7 Posted November 8, 2012 What an extremely neat item with a great history behind it. Seems like a lot of rare items are starting to pop up on a regular basis. Might have something to do with the children of WWII vets hitting retirement age. Exactly - so often I hear tales of how they can't find anyone in the younger generations to take the stuff, or they narrow it down to a couple of medals and get rid of the rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack's Son Posted November 9, 2012 Share #8 Posted November 9, 2012 I am available as a person to take permeant care of medals with no homes! Please mention my name FS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Hudson Posted November 9, 2012 Author Share #9 Posted November 9, 2012 I am available as a person to take permeant care of medals with no homes! Please mention my name FS. Forget the medals: you should have seen the original handwritten letter of surrender (in English) from the Japanese general at Cebu, described as "One of the first large scale surrenders in the Pacific" at http://anthro151.blogspot.com/2010/10/japanese-surrender.html Here's Gen. Arnold accepting the surrender (his son said the family had the Japanese general's sword for many years until they returned it to his family in Japan): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack's Son Posted November 9, 2012 Share #10 Posted November 9, 2012 Forget the medals: you should have seen the original handwritten letter of surrender (in English) from the Japanese general at Cebu, described as "One of the first large scale surrenders in the Pacific" at http://anthro151.blo...-surrender.html Here's Gen. Arnold accepting the surrender (his son said the family had the Japanese general's sword for many years until they returned it to his family in Japan): I agree, that is a story unto itself! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Flick Posted November 17, 2012 Share #11 Posted November 17, 2012 Neat flag. This is the flag that is to be used indoors, typically in the GO's office. The fringe tells us that. GO flags used in the field do not have the fringe. I don't have the Army Reg. handy here but GOs are entitled to receive a number of items when they make BG rank including license plates, a GO pistol, holster and belt rig, flags, stationery, etc. Promotions after BG provide for similar items with the appropriate rank displayed. Here is a link with more info from the Institute of Heraldry. http://www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil/UniformedServices/Flags/Gen_Officer_Flags.aspx Regards, Charlie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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