Original U.S. WWI 46 Star Flag with Great History - First Flag Raised at Largest Base Hospital in the World with Note of Provenance - 30 x 45” NATION Overall length: 33 1/4”

Overall length: 33 1/4”

Here’s what inside this trunk-

actually in the form of a vest or short sleeved shirt

while downplaying hits to the torso

with no dents or stress cracks that we can see

Original U.S. WWI 46 Star Flag with Great History - First Flag Raised at Largest Base Hospital in the World with Note of Provenance - 30 x 45” NATION Overall length: 33 1/4”Original Item. One of a Kind. This is a really tremendous 46 star flag which is tattered along the edges and has two U. S. army shoelaces threading its eyelets, having been the first flag flown over the largest base hospital in the world at Fox Hills, which would become Army Debarkation Hospital No. 2, which served & treated the thousands of incoming wounded soldiers from France during World War I. The flag was raised by Captain Francis L. Hagadorn, a