Private J. K. Chancy display the 18-foot Italian fascist flag

Creator

Preview

Identifier

20038085

Description

Private J. K. Chancy displaying the 18-foot black Italian fascist flag he captured on a raiding party near Anzio beachhead, before a shrapnel wound in the right eye caused him to be invalided back from the front. He is not keeping the flag but says it would make a good bonfie on the Armistice Day of this war. Published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram morning edition, November 15, 1944.

Archival Date

1944-11-14

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-6-645

Original Format

Negatives, Black & White

File Format

JPG

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Subjects

Flags; Chancy, J. K. (Pvt.); Military uniforms; Military personnel; Confiscations