Photo #: NH 44967
Brigadier General Holland M. Smith, USMC (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 Historical Center Photograph.
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