SIGNED VIET CONG FLAG

Wartime National Liberation Front (NLF) / Viet Cong (VC) flag that was captured by James Shorten who had the other members of 5th Special Forces Group (ABN), A-501 sign the flag.

James H. Jones / Shorten served two tours in Vietnam. His first tour was in 1966 as a US Navy Seaman assigned to the Cargo Handling Battalion (CHB-2), Camp Tien, Da Nang. He returned for a second tour in 1969 with Military Assistance Command Vietnam Studies and Observations Group (MAC V SOG), Command and Control Central (CCC), Recon Company and served on Recon Teams Delaware and Illinois.