Original 1947 Associated Press wire photo showing U.S. Army sergeants removing the American flag from a casket after the arrival of the Army transport Honda Knot in Oakland, California. The ship carried the remains of 3,028 American World War II dead, with selected caskets prepared to lie in state at San Francisco City Hall. Mounted on black archival paper with the original AP caption mounted below the photograph. Overall mounted size is approximately 9 x 8 inches. Light handling wear, scattered surface marks, and minor edge and corner wear consistent with age. From the archive of a Pittsburgh area newspaper.
