Brookline man’s Iwo Jima mementos bring closure to Japanese family

boston herald ^ | October 28, 2010 | Associated Press

[Charlespg]

For decades, the faded photograph of a baby Japanese girl and a child’s colorful drawing hung on a wall in the Brookline home of Franklin Hobbs III.

As a 21-year-old U.S. soldier fighting on Iwo Jima, one of the bloodiest battles of World War II, Hobbs found them in the pocket of a fallen Japanese soldier and took them as a souvenir.

[Charlespg]

interesting that they could find the family members

[ThePatrioticArtist]

That’s a nice story. :)

[WakeUpAndVote]

A corporal in the Army Signal Corps, Hobbs had just survived an intense battle on the beach, dug in deep with a buddy and eating raw bacon for three days.
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Bacon. More proof that God loves us.

[SunkenCiv]

thanks Charlespg.

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