A paper crane folded by Sadako Sasaki, a victim of the Hiroshima atomic bombing who died of leukemia a decade after the attack, was donated Saturday to a memorial exhibition on the U.S. battleship Missouri at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
Hoping for a better future, Sadako, a peace icon, folded more than a thousand origami cranes while undergoing treatment. She died at the age of 12 in 1955.
The crane, which symbolizes good fortune, will be displayed on the battleship on which Japan formally surrendered to the Allied powers, bringing World War II to an end in September 1945. The U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor was the site of a surprise attack by Japan on Dec. 7, 1941.