WW2 Captured Japanese National Flag and Decorated by US Navy Seabees, fine silk Japanese national flag with the centre having a painted scene of Mount Fuji and a shrine gate. Around the edge is Japanese text which has been translated by the Japanese embassy in London in 1987 to say, ‘Engineer A. Sloker’, the edge place names, ‘Yokosuka’, ‘Tennyan’, ‘Enwitark’, ‘Guam’, ‘Oahu’ and ‘Iwo Jima’, the bottom ‘U.S. Navy’ and ‘Sea Bee Troop’, bottom corner is inked in English, ‘EUGENE A SROKA M.M 3/C’. The flag measures 96 x 67cms. Some areas of shredding and light staining but still a nice displayable flag. The US Navy Seabeas were a construction force which were often brought in to help build infrastructure on captured islands in the Pacific island hoping campaign. Because they were not a front line combat force, many US marines and infantry soldiers fighting in the Pacific campaign, tell stories of men from these units trading cigarettes and food items with front line troops coming off the line for Japanese war souvenirs, many of these men would then decorate flags such as this example and sell them onto other troops to take home as souvenirs, many of these flags exist on the market which actually do not translate to anything. These Seabee decorated flags are an interesting item from the Pacific war.