GRADUATION EXERCISES OF THE COMPANY OFFICERS' CLASS AND THE NATIONAL GUARD AND RESERVE OFFICERS' CLASS, Harris Hall, Friday, June 7, 1929 [cover title].

Fort Humphreys, VA: The Engineer School, 1929. First edition, 1/500 copies. 8vo. (5) pp. Among the 18 graduates of the Company Officers’ Course was 2nd Lt. Benjamin B. Talley who, as a colonel in World War II, would lead the engineering effort on D-Day at Omaha Beach. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Very good. [Accompanied by a:] Large photograph (several tears into margin, other minor edgewear), 10 ¾ x 13 ¾ inches, a panorama on the Columbia River with a company of troops in formation in the foreground, army building behind them, the river and the opposite shore in the background, inscribed in pencil on the verso: “Headquarters & Service Co., 29th U.S. Topo. Bn. / Capt. Bob Talley Commanding / On Athletic Field Hallman (sp) School / Portland Oregon 1928. / (The 29th Engrs were on mapping / duty in the Pacific Northwest and this / is the unit using the first multiplex / Photographometric Equipt in the U S Army.)”. Item #65397

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