Chief of Staff George C. Marshall consults with his staff over a map laid out before them, a group photograph of the general and his staff, Marshall seated at a table, surrounded by Generals Leonard Gerow (seated on the an edge of the table to Marshall’s right), Raymond A. Wheeler, Sherman Miles, Henry “Hap” Arnold, Wade Haislip, and Col. Harry Twaddle (all standing behind him), and William Bryden (seated at the end of the table to Marshall’s left)
[Washington, DC?]: nd [ca. 1941]. Photograph, 11 x 14 inches, picturing the American general staff at the eve of World War II. Marshall (1880-1959) served as Chief of Staff, 1939-1945, and held important cabinet positions after the war; Gerow (1888-1972) would be the first corps commander ashore on D-Day; Wheeler (1885-1974) later served as Deputy Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia (1944-1945); Miles (1882-1966), the son of General Nelson Miles, was Chief of Military Intelligence when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor; Arnold (1886-1950) served as Chief of the Air Corps (1938-1941) and then Chief of Army Air Forces (1941-1945); Haislip (1889-1971) led the XV Corps after the D-Day invasion (1944-1945) and was commander of the 7th Army when Germany surrendered; Twaddle (1888-1954) commanded the 95th Infantry Division in France and Germany during the closing months of the war; Bryden (1880-1972) served as Deputy Chief of Staff to Marshall, 1940-1942. Getty Images posts a similar online photograph from the same meeting. The number “125898” appears in white in a lower corner, hole-punched at bottom edge for placement in a binder, several small creases, but very good. Item #70213
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