Fort Sill's Field Artillery Museum has received a mysterious link to the past, a memento of the artillery's role in the Allied victory in Europe.
A Nazi banner signed by all members of the U.S. artillery unit that captured it now hangs in the north gallery of the museum along with other World War II memorabilia.
Museum Curator Gordon Blaker knows how the banner got here, but a large part of its past history remains murky.
Here's what he does know: This Nazi Party banner was taken as a war trophy by an artilleryman in B Battery, 745th Field Artillery Battalion, which used the powerful M1 8-inch howitzers.
On the red field of the banner the eight officers and 106 enlisted men of the battery wrote their names and hometowns. The white center around the swastika included the countries the battalion was in and the German towns and cities they passed through in 1944-45. Wednesday, February 22, 2012
