Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many of the pilots aboard one of the Navy's big carriers were Southerners that a plane dispatcher just naturally started waving them off with the Texas Lone Star flag, instead of the usual checkered square. This caused small comment. But when the dispatcher switched to the Stars and Bars of the Confederacy, it was too much...
...wild marshes and the dark forests strode soldiers of Poland's Underground Army. They bore aloft their country's red-&-white flag, marched into the Russian lines, presented "declarations of collaboration" to Red Army commanders: "We meet the forces of the Soviet Union on Polish soil as our co-belligerents in the fight against our common enemy, Germany. We bring to your knowledge that there is in existence in these territories an administration secretly organized by the Polish State under the yoke of German occupation...
...only one with a Presidential possibility-his flag secretary, Lieut. Commander Harold Stassen on his staff...
There was no band, no flag, no ceremonial. It wasn't even dramatic. A car honked outside and he said: "Well, I guess that...
...gait of an athlete taken out of a game. There are two moments of greatness: the slow, tentative wading ashore of the relief troops on the fourth day (no camera recorded the slaughter of 300 to 400 on the second); the faces of the marines as they watch the flag rise to the peak of the pole they have...