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  • Bullet-riddled U.S. flag that survived D-Day comes home 75 years later

    07/21/2019 7:59:21 AM PDT · by rktman · 17 replies
    reuters.com ^ | 7/18/2019 | Steve Holland
    Shot through by German machine gun bullets and tattered by the wind, an American flag that flew on the first U.S. invading ship on D-Day came home on Thursday in a White House ceremony. The flag handover was a main part of the visit to the White House by Mark Rutte, prime minister of the Netherlands, who held Oval Office talks with President Donald Trump. The flag has been owned by retired Dutch businessman and art collector Bert Kreuk, who paid $514,000 for it at auction three years ago with the intention of donating it to the United States. “I...