The flag quickly disappeared and its absence not really noticed. However, the next day,adifferent and larger flag was fluttering from the Arc de Triomphe when French General Charles DeGaulle led a victory parade down the Champs-Elysees.
In 2008, French chef Armand Lourdin was preparing a meal for a group of American World War II veterans in Chappaqua, New York. After dinner they sent for him, "Everybody was standing up, they had opened up the flag and they were all singing the Marseillaises in French-- they had learned the words." One of the men said he had taken the flag when Paris was liberated and asked Lourdin to take it back to France on his upcoming vacation.
He gave it to relatives in south France and September 18, 2010, French firefighters hung it from the town hall.
Now, That Is An Interesting Story. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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