ULTRA RARE WWII No. 11 LCI Small Landing Craft Salty Theater 48 Star Ensign Flag

Size: 29.5 x 54 inches. These WWII Landing Craft (LCI) flags are the prized center of any WWII or history collection. We recently just got a very similar WWII landing craft flag custom framed from the 745th Tank Battalion that amphibiously landed them on Omaha Beach with the 1st Infantry on D-Day. If you would like to see a similar flag framed please send us a message and let us know. This'salty' and heavily theater-flown small landing craft (LCI) World War II U. Navy flag shows extreme theater use and wear. This flag still clearly shows the original NO. 11 ink stamp, however, the marker mark stamp Mare Island (MI), or Valley Forge mark is completely faded due to the salty ocean and sun.

This flag is the exact NO. 11 flag type that amphibious all WWII landing crafts, LCI, LCT's, etc. Stormed the beaches of Normandy, Italy, Okinawa, Africa, Iwo Jima, etc. With as well as other beachheads in both the ETO and PTO.

While it cannot be proven. 11 is identical and shows similar "wear" and "holes" in the middle as another WWII No.

11 flag brought back by a WWII veteran. As referenced from WWII veteran in the video interview he shows the No. 11 flag he brought back and points the holes and torn marks in the middle talking about how he witnessed German bullets tearing through the flag making these marks on D-Day. We cannot confirm if this is true for this flag, however, the marks are VERY similar.

This flag comes from the 1943 or 1944 wartime production year and comes from either the Valley Forge war production line or Mare Island war production line. Both were some of the most famous and notable flag makers for the military during WWII. The Mare Island Naval Station in San Francisco Bay was home to what was known as the Pacific Fleet, however, their flags were used throughout all theaters war during WWII. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history.

The operation began the liberation of France (and later western Europe) and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front. This WWII small landing craft flag is in heavily used and worn condition.

Used landing craft flags from WWII were a very sought after war prizes as talked about by many WWII veterans. Small handfuls of heavily used NO.

11 type flag type is historically documented as being issued and flown on small landing crafts including LCI (Landing Craft Infantry). 11 marked flag is one of the most sought-after number No. Mare Island Naval Shipyard was the first naval base on the west coast of the United States. It is 25 miles northeast of San Francisco, near Vallejo, California. During WWII the base was used for shipbuilding and repair.

There were 46,000 workers employed there during the war. It comprised over 900 buildings, and the base closed in 1996. The flag loft employed 500 workers, 400 women doing their part by working 8 hours a day 6 days a week.