Morgan, now 93 years old, said his unit was in combat operations in Germany and the flag was flying from a flagpole in front of a building in Mannheim when he "liberated" it.

His father, a San Antonio soldier with the 36th Infantry Division, had captured the flag during the liberation of a concentration camp near Landsberg, Germany, during World War II. More ...

World War II, the world's deadliest international conflict, left almost 80 million people dead. Here's what started it and why it ended in 1945.