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.
Wednesday, November 27, 2019
D-Day Flag Comes Home
From the October Naval History magazine.
In a White House ceremony on 18 July 2019, Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie G Bunch III accepted a 48-star flag that had flown from Landing Craft, Control (LCC) 60 on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
The 30-by-57-inch flag shows discoloration and staining from diesel exhaust along with general wear and tear sustained during its wartime use. A hole in it appears to have come from a German machine-gun bullet.
The LCC 60 worked off Utah Beach and was commanded by Howard Vander Beek, a Dutch-American who kept the flag.
Following a meeting between President Trump and Prime Minister Mark Rutte of thye Netherlands, a Dutch art collector, Bert Kreuk donated the flag to the Smithsonian where it is now on view of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History's "D-Day, June 6, 1944" 75th anniversary exhibit.
--GreGen
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