NVA flag brought back by Lt Col Robert Simonis, USMC

[kyhistorian01]

Here is a flag I have had for a long time that was brought home by Lt Col Robert Simonis. He was the brother in law of my Father's cousin and I visited with him in 1993 while in California for reserve duty with the Navy. He was a veteran of WWII, Korea and Vietnam and was assigned to MACV towards the end of his career. He gave me this and a photo album containing Japanese photos and postcards he found in a box on Guadalcanal. I will show them as son as I dig them out. I am not sure of the whole story about how he came to obtain this flag, but its a nice one.

 

Robert

[badash5946]

Thanks for sharing Robert. It is too bad that there isn't a record of how it was acquired. And BTW, it is a VC flag, not an NVA. Still nice anyway.

[kyhistorian01]

Thanks for sharing Robert. It is too bad that there isn't a record of how it was acquired. And BTW, it is a VC flag, not an NVA. Still nice anyway.

 

 

Thanks for the info. I don't know a lot about Vietnam material and I was going by something I found on the internet that was apparently wrong. The only thing I knows is that he brought it back from Vietnam with him. I have the dates of his service over there in my files, but I would have to dig it out.

 

Robert

[MattS]

NVA flags are all red with a yellow star. Nice VC flag! I have one on display at our museum that came from a "trail watch" team that captured it on the trail in Laos near Tchepone.