sentences:  Bill Bailey (Spanish Civil War veteran)
  
  William James Bailey (January 23, 1910 – February 27, 1995) was an Irish-American Communist Party labor activist who fought in the Republican forces of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939).As a merchant seaman, Bailey stole the swastika flag that flew from the bow of the German ship "Bremen" docked in Manhattan in 1935.