Original Wood Film Prop M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle From Ellis Props - As Used in Sands of Iwo Jima Availability_Domestic The flag is multi-piece construction

The flag is multi-piece construction with a Balkan cross on white background stitched onto the red base

For its work in pioneering the B-26 medium altitude operation and showing the world that the B-26 was an efficient and formidable foe for the enemy

and the false clip point edge was sharpened as well

with all of the original nickel plating worn away

Several changes occurred throughout its lifetime

Original Wood Film Prop M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle From Ellis Props - As Used in Sands of Iwo Jima Availability_Domestic The flag is multi-piece constructionOriginal Item: Only One Available. Sands Of Iwo Jima (1949) is one of the most acclaimed WW II movie ever made. So accurate a portray of the famous Battle of Iwo Jima, culminating in the famous "Raising of the Flag" over Mount Sunibachi, that the Marine Corps allowed the production to not only use the actual flag that was raised on that fateful February 23rd, 1945, but utilized three of the actual Marines who originally held the flag up in the scene