Up for bid is something unique. A very very rare French Battle Flag. My grandmother was a nurse with the Red Cross during WWII. Helping our brave American soldiers after they stormed the beaches of Normandy under heavy German fire. She was then ordered to go inland to see if she could help there.
While driving alone across France she became lost and drove into a large French village to get directions. Once there she discovered three battalions of Elite French Commandos who had been hiding in the village since 1939 practicing their very special kind of battle tactics. “Evasion’on” I think they called it.
She was surprised to see that as soon as she step out of the jeep, the commandos quickly retreated and hid. They were very good at hiding it seemed. She started searching for someone to give directions when the French commander sent a twelve-year-old girl out into the street waving this very French Battle Flag to seek “Terms of Surrender”.
Confused, my poor grandmother said she only wanted directions so she could help some real soldiers. These terms were accepted and the commander immediately surrendered. The French immediately began to complain that under “Rules of Engagement” they were now her prisoners and she would have to defend them.
Too her surprise 3 German soldiers also surrender. Well they weren’t really soldiers but 3 German Boy Scouts out hiking before the war but they had uniforms and one had a pen knife. Seems they had captured the village 5 years earlier and were now glad to rid themselves of the whining French peasants. The Germans were shock to learn the French Commandos lived in the same village. Never once had the Germans seen a French soldier, but each now notice all the ugly French women were missing. Seems they were really good at hiding.
On a side note, pure white French Battle Flags like this are hard to come by, seems that the bed linden used to make these flags usually had a yellow tint to them for some reason. Grab this item while can.