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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

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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18 December 2006