This 48-star American flag flew from the stern of Landing Craft Control 60 on D-Day as its crew heroically led the Allied charge on Utah Beach. U.S. Navy Lieutenant Howard Vander Beek, the skipper of the tiny guide boat, saved the now-tattered flag, but a symmetrical hole on its blue field is still visible. “That’s a hole where a bullet went through,” he explained in 2009. (Heritage Auctions)

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