Flags in Iowa will be at half-staff on Saturday, June 28, in honor of a World War II veteran whose remains had been missing since 1945.

"The flags of the allies," says one message, are now floating over the imperial palace." There is a possibility that the line of communication of the allies has been cut.

Allied troops traded for the flags or took them as souvenirs, sometimes from dead Japanese soldiers. More than 50,000 flags are thought to remain in the United States, some in museums and personal ...

The day is remembered by former allied nations as V-J Day, or Victory in Japan. In the U.S. the date was Aug. 14. The government of Japan ordered the nation’s flags flown at half-staff to mark ...