Original U.S. WWII US Marine Captured Japanese Flag From Battle of Okinawa, Sugar Loaf Hill - Captured May 18, 1945 and Personalized by Silver Star Recipient 1st LT Francis X. Smith, 6th Marine Division MG 42 Display Guns & Part Sets most likely being used as

most likely being used as a utility knife in the field

Bakelite or early plastic boxed instrument in a sickly mottled lime green with fancy sound grill in silvered metal and 25 keys (10 black and 15 white) on the fingerboard

Principally used by the Navy

80 fell into the hands of the French before the consignment reached the 4th Chevaulegers and were later returned to Prussia in 1872

finely pebble grained panels

Original U.S. WWII US Marine Captured Japanese Flag From Battle of Okinawa, Sugar Loaf Hill - Captured May 18, 1945 and Personalized by Silver Star Recipient 1st LT Francis X. Smith, 6th Marine Division MG 42 Display Guns & Part Sets most likely being used asOriginal Item: One Of A Kind. Now this is an absolutely incredible piece of Marine Corps history and the hellish Battle for Okinawa. The flag was captured on May 18, 1945, the same date written in the Silver Star citation for 1st Lieutenant Francis Xavier Smith, Platoon Commander, Company D, 2nd Battalion 29th Marine Regiment, 6th Marine Division. Lt Smith enlisted on September 11, 1942 and went to Officer Candidate School the following year to train