The Annual Delaware Antiques Show

JEFF R. BRIDGMAN ANTIQUES, INC. Historic York County, PA 717.676.0545

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Homemade WWII flag w/ 23 silver gilt stars on a cornflower blue canton & 16 stripes, made by French citizens to welcome U.S. troops on the coast of France following liberation from the Nazi’s, in the wake of the 1944 Normandy invasion. Found in Brittany, in Le Conquet, the westernmost town on the French mainland, liberated by the Free French & the 5th Army Ranger Battalion in early September.

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