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Description:Torn and tattered. These 3rd Division Marines found this American flag in the ruins of a building on the Plaza de Espana and strung it across the entrance to the ruined Catholic Cathedral at Agana, Guam. July 31, 1944. (USMC Hdqrs # 93, 578, Marine Corps Historical Center).
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