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--- In Kresy-Siberia@..., Anne Kaczanowski
wrote:
> Just a tidbit of info some may be interested in knowing.
>?
> I am in London and have visited the Sikorski museum.? In a book I
> read somehere along the line, there was a story about how the flag
> got hoisted on the capture of Monte Cassino hill.? It wrote about
> how the first soldiers who reached the top of the Monte Cassino
> hill
> had no official flag to hoist. They had cloth from the Red Cross
> that they wrapped bodies in , and so they ripped a piece of this
> red and white material and an ol' handkierchief and stitched
> together a makeshift Polish flag to hoist on a pole on the hill.?
> Within hours apparently an official flag was hoisted but it was
> this makeshift one that was the first Polish flag on the hill
> marking its capture.?
> I never knew whether this was in fact true or just a great story.?
> Well it is true and the flag is on display at the museum.?
>?
> It is triangular, less than 2 feet long? with the red on top and a
> tiny bit of white fabric on the material below it, white being
> perhaps only an inch wide on the wide end.? Then a light grey
> handkerchief is stitched underneath the white with delicate
> stitching of white thread. The flag is wider on the right and
> pointed on the left.? It was a sight to see and am happy the story
> is true.
??
> hania




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For a picture of the Polish flag that was hoisted above the ruins of
Monte Cassino, see:




Bert Bakker
Nelspruit
South Africa





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