Ultimate Flags

HOW OTHERS WERE SAVED?

Around the same time Arizona was being bombed, the training and target ship USS Utah was rocked by two torpedo strikes from Japanese aircraft. The aging vessel soon began to list to one side as water flooded into its hull. Inside the boiler room, Chief Watertender Peter To...

HOW TO WIN OVER ENEMIES?

Phil Rasmussen was one of the handful of American pilots who managed to take to the skies during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Like many others, the 23-year-old second lieutenant was still sleeping when his post at Wheeler Field was bombed, but he rushed outside and found ...

HOW A CIVILIAN BECAME A HERO AT PEARL HARBOR ATTACK?

One of the many civilians to win plaudits during the Pearl Harbor attack, George Walters was a dockyard worker who manned a massive rolling crane positioned alongside the dry-docked battleship USS Pennsylvania. When the yard came under fire du...

HOW AN OFFICER FIGHT THOUGH UNPREPARED?

Chief Petty Officer John Finn was still lying in bed with his wife when Japanese fighter planes descended on his post at the Kaneohe Bay air station some 15 miles from Pearl Harbor. After throwing on clothes and driving to the base, he commandeered a .30 c...

HOW TO WORK TOGETHER?

Army Air Corps pilots George Welch and
Kenneth Taylor spent the evening before the Pearl Harbor attack attending a formal dance and playing poker until the wee hours of the morning. They were still sleeping off their night of partying when they were awakened around 8 a.m. ...

BRAVE TEXAS COOK IS PEARL HARBOR HERO

Doris Miller, known as “Dorie” to shipmates and friends, was born in Waco, Texas in October 1919.

He helped his parents and three brothers around the house by cooking meals and doing laundry, as well as working on the family farm. Miller was a good student ...

DID GEORGE WASHINGTON HAVE HIS OWN FLAG?

This flag has been widely called the “personal” flag of George Washington and reportedly made as a headquarters flag in 1777.

According to this tradition he used this flag throughout the whole Revolutionary War. Unfortunately, there has been no proven co...

WHO RAISED THE "GRAND OLD UNION FLAG” or CONTINENTAL COLORS 1775?

According to legend, one day in 1775, General Washington approached Rebecca Flower Young, a Philadelphia pennant and colors maker, and asked her to make a flag for use by the troops.

The flag he designed became known as the Grand...

WHAT WAS THE FIRST FLAG OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR?

On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress passed a resolution adopting an official flag for the Colonial forces. It contained no drawings or illustrations of what the flag should look like, just these words.

“Resolved, That the flag of the United S...