A battle-scarred American flag believed to be the first planted on Omaha beach d...
A battle-scarred American flag believed to be the first planted on Omaha beach during the 1944 D-Day landings during World War II, which will be auctioned next week, is shown in this photo provided June 3, 2019. Courtesy of Heritage Auctions/Handout via REUTERS
The flag, with a distinctive gold fringe and a repair from an apparent bullet hole, was planted by a U.S. army engineer on Omaha Beach, the scene of some of the bloodiest battles when Allied forces stormed the Normandy coast of France in World War Two. “Take care of the flag. It’s the first which went up on the beachhead, two hours after the invasion started. I had to use my tent pole to raise it,” Horvath wrote in the letter to his wife.
Horvath died of a stroke in either 1961 or 1962 and left the flag and other war medals and mementoes to his nephew. The flag is being sold by a private collector.
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