Anyone familiar with Company "M" of the Battle of Attu and a American-Japanese Corporal Yashida who provided them with a flag to fly? Just inherited my grampa's letters and scraps and found an unbelievable typewritten poem by a Sgt. G. Kinsman about this story. Want to know what happened ...
Hi, and welcome to the forum. We don't get many ladies around here, hope you stick around. I think i can speake for most on here when i say yes, would would love to here it. I am not familiar wth the inident you menion, as i tend to study the European front.
Thanks for the welcome! I'm happy to find this place ... here's an excerpt from the poem written on June 12th, 1943. You'll forgive me for not typing the entire poem!: "... the flag that we have in mind at this time, in the hearts of us all it will stay, the emblem of freedom, and proudly it flew on the Island of Attu in May ...our troops have assualted, and battles were won, but Old Glory, our flag wasn't there no one remebered to bring it with them it was not that boys did not care ... ...a flag was presented to Company "M", by a Japanese soldier so grand Corporal Yashida, just one of the boys who is fighting to save our land ... the flag of our country should always be flown wherever soldiers will stand and our soldiers are proud,and they shout it out loud, it's the emblem of God's Chosen Land. [ 27. October 2002, 07:03 PM: Message edited by: grampas girl ]
I can't say I'm very familiar with those events either. The poem is very nice, thanks for posting it, and welcome to these Forums 'maam.
Yes indeed - glad to see you here, granpa's girl ! I'm ashamed to say that I hadn't even heard of Attu until your post But there are a lot of websites about it, none of which seem to mention your 'incident'. I'll keep looking....
