Mystery flag to mark 80th anniversary of disastrous Dieppe raid on Remembrance Day
Legend has that when Canadian troops stormed ashore under a hail of German gunfire at the French port of Dieppe in August 1942, one of the hundreds who eventually died in the attack was carrying an old flag.
“It was an old flag and he was just going to throw it away,” says Charles’s son Mike Lowry. “And Dad said: ‘What’s the story with the flag?’” The American veteran didn’t know any of this at the time. What he did know was what the German soldier told him: That the flag had been taken off one of the 916 Canadian soldiers who died three years earlier during the ill-fated raid at Dieppe.
The flag instead travelled back to Nebraska and into the hands of Charles, who set about trying to identify it with Mike, who was in high school at the time.
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