“I believe we will influence the teaching of the War Between the States,” he wrote. As the USS Mississippi steamed into Tokyo Bay after Japan’s surrender, it was flying the Confederate flag.Īfter the war, a white sergeant from Kentucky wrote home to ask his mother to send a Confederate flag to display in a French school. When the Allies secured military victory over Germany, a tank officer carried the Confederate flag into Berlin. The Charlotte Observer praised Brice and other white marines, soldiers, and sailors for being “descendants of men who wore the gray have not forgotten in the turmoil of battle, their reverence for those heroes of the. Brice of South Carolina dubbed himself the “commander of Confederate forces” in the Solomon Islands and flew the Confederate flag on the islands’ base. In the Pacific, Marine Colonel William O. “This is one war we’re gonna win,” he said. He told Stars and Stripes, the official military newspaper, that he’d brought a cache of flags with him and that he had already hung the Confederate flag in Naples, Rome, and Leghorn. Fifth Army captured the Italian town of Rifreddo. The Baltimore Evening Sun described this as a “recurring phenomenon which has been observed in areas as widely separated as the Southwest Pacific, Italy and France.”ĭavid Petraeus: Take the Confederate names off our army basesĪ major from Richmond, Virginia, raised the Confederate flag over a house after the U.S. As American forces took over Pacific Islands or European towns, the troops would sometimes raise the Confederate flag alongside or instead of the U.S. When white southern troops went overseas during the war, some of them carried Confederate flags with them. military came to embrace the Confederate flag in the first place, the answers lie in World War II. But if you want to understand how the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps recently decided to ban the Confederate flag from military installations, and the Army is considering renaming 10 bases named after Confederate generals. He fashioned a makeshift flagpole and hoisted it up, so that the battle-worn Confederate flag could fly over the liberated village. A young officer from Chattanooga, Tennessee, reached into his rucksack and pulled out a flag that his grandfather had carried during the Civil War. In July 1944, one month after the Allies stormed the beaches of Normandy, the 79th Infantry Division drove Nazi troops out of the French town La Haye-du-Puits. He is the author of Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation. About the author: Matthew Delmont is a professor of history at Dartmouth College.
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