Tattered Treasures: World War Two U.S. Navy Flags of Mare Island Naval Shipyard
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Author/contributor
- Grimes Jr., Dale (Author)
Title
Tattered Treasures: World War Two U.S. Navy Flags of Mare Island Naval Shipyard
Abstract
We can learn a lot about flags from the markings that appear on their headers. Diagrams and tables exist that have been created by the military that help to categorize flags by their sizes. Mare Island Naval Shipyard produced thousands of flags over a period of 150 years. Its World War Two flags include distinctive markings that appear on many of the flags in my collection. I have devised a way to calculate a flag’s RIF (Remnant Indicator Formula) which will be shared during this presentation. Information will also be shared about the two flags raised over Iwo Jima that were both made at Mare Island.
Proceedings Title
Proceedings of the 24th International Congress of Vexillology, Washington, D.C., USA 1–5 August 2011
Conference Name
24th International Congress of Vexillology
Publisher
North American Vexillological Association (NAVA)
Place
Trenton, NJ, USA
Date
2011
Event Place
Washington, D.C., USA
Pages
353-362
Series
ICV Proceedings
Series Number
ICV 24
ISBN
978-0-9747728-4-4
Archive
NAVA Digital Library
Language
[eng] English
Library Catalog
NAVA Publications Index (NPI) // International Vexillological Index (IVI)
License
open access
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[IVI.CID] 70d7799b-57c7-4e99-9d5e-f5423e9426a3
Citation
Grimes Jr., Dale. 2011. “Tattered Treasures: World War Two U.S. Navy Flags of Mare Island Naval Shipyard.” Proceedings of the 24th International Congress of Vexillology, Washington, D.C., USA 1–5 August 2011, ICV Proceedings, 353–62. NAVA Digital Library. https://www.nava.org/digital-library/icv24grimes.pdf.
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