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NH 44967 Brigadier General Holland M. Smith, USMC

Photo #: NH 44967 Brigadier General Holland M. Smith, USMC
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Title: Brigadier General Holland M. Smith, USMC
Description: (right) A 1 September 1939 photograph taken in Washington, D.C., on the same day Hitler invaded Poland. Brigadier General Smith signs his promotion papers while Major General Thomas Holcomb, Marine Corps Commandant assists. Note the copy of the Washington Daily newspaper, next to the promotion papers, with a headline beginning Hitler .... U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 44967
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