Private First Class James A. King, Company K, 26th Infantry Regiment picked up this tattered flag from an Aachen street following heavy fighting.
The video clip below shows the heavy street fighting in Aachen, Germany. Near the end you can see this flag run over by a U.S. half-track vehicle.
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