D-Day Flag Is Coming Home – IOTW Report

D-Day Flag Is Coming Home

A US Flag that flew on LCC 60 at Utah beach on D-Day is being returned from the Netherlands. A Dutch collector had purchased the artifact in 2014 for $514,000 after the surviving family members of Navy Lieutenant Howard Vander Beek (who skippered the landing vessel) had put it up for auction. More 

8 Comments on D-Day Flag Is Coming Home

  1. No, I don’t think much of the surviving family members of Lieutenant Howard Vander Beek who sold the flag. Disgusting.
    I have no doubt that Howard Vander Beek would agree.

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  2. After President Trump’s end of SOTUA remarks about WWII veterans, I don’t see how he could not go pick it up.

    Damn! Time for a n antihistamine. Got dusty in here.

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