WWII US Flag From the Rainbow Corner Officers Club – Item 116199

Fantastic WWII US Stars and Stripes large flag. Flown at the Grange Hotel, Brampton and also at Rainbow Corner Shaftsbury Avenue London. This was a Home from Home for American Officers during WWII. Also flown at the Grange Hotel Brampton which was the HQ for the US 8th Army Air Force. Tag on flag stares “From the American Red Cross Club at Rainbow Corner, Shaftsbury Avenue, London. June 1945″. Sold in aid of the Children’s War Charity. This very large flag with good historical provenance.

Note: The Grange Hotel in Brampton, Cambridgeshire, is a historic Georgian house built in 1773, famously known a the WWII headquarters for the USAAF’s crucial lst Air Division, where bombing missions against Germany were planned.   After the war, it served as RAF Technical Training Command, then became a hotel/restaurant before closing around 2007-2008, eventually being redeveloped into flats, with a plaque celebrating its military pas