There were paintings and pottery.
- During the brutal Battle of Okinawa in Japan, in the final months of World War II, a group of US soldiers took residence in the palace of a royal family who had fled the fighting. When a palace steward returned after the war was over, he said later, the treasure was gone.
“It’s an exciting moment when you watch the scrolls unfurl in front of you, and you just witness history, and you witness something that hasn’t been seen by many people in a very long time,” he said. The cache of 22 artifacts from the 18th and 19th centuries includes two portraits of Ryukyu kings – the only two of as many as 100 painted that are known to have survived the war – “an incredible find,” he said.
“Samurai swords, katanas, things on military personnel, that was always accepted,” Col. DeJesse said, describing how American commanders approved service members’ war trophies from the battlefield.
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