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University of California - Santa Cruz Board of Councilors Meeting, Rare Flags Exhibit Santa Cruz, CA 7 June 2012 Santa Cruz, CA, June 7, 2012: The Zaricor Flag Collection exhibited 34 flags and artifacts at the University of California Santa Cruz Campus for the Board of Councilors Meeting. UK, 6th Airborne Division, Headquarters Guidon, WWII Date: 1944-1945 Media: Wool and cotton. Comment: This British Airborne Divisional HQ Command Pennant came from the Estate of United States Army General Matthew B. Ridgway, who acquired the guidon as a memento of command from elements of the British 6th Airborne Division. The pennant honored Ridgway's contributions to airborne warfare. From the ultimately triumphant Normandy invasion which had begun on 6 June 1944, D-Day; where Ridgway helped plan airborne operations and commanded the U.S. 82nd, All-American Airborne Division. This guidon was presented in the spring of 1945, after the crossing of the Rhine and the advance into Germany. The insignia of British Airborne Divisions features the winged horse Pegasus beneath Bellerophon, slayer of monsters and, according to Greek myth, the first airborne warrior. In 1941, Prime Minister Winston Churchill appointed Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Boy Browning to organize Great Britain's airborne forces. General Browning's wife, Daphne du Maurier, was the master of modern Gothic narrative and the author of the story on which Alfred Hitchcock would base his film The Birds. du Maurier suggested the maroon background color for the airborne soldier's insignia and headgear, and her husband liked the idea. The Airborne's maroon berets and shoulder insignia would inspire the German nickname for Britain's airborne troops, Rote Teufel or the "Red Devils." Today, the UK's Parachute Regiment carries on the tradition, and the maroon beret is recognized as the headgear of airborne troops the world over. Provenance: Acquired in 1997 by the Zaricor Flag Collection (ZFC1271) directly from the estate of General and Mrs. Matthew Ridgway via Dargate Auction Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA. www.FlagCollection.com

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