WW2 US SIGNAL CORPS CHIEF OFC. EUROPEAN THEATRE of OPERATIONS I.D. CARD (D-DAY)

Description: ORIGINAL! VERY RARE! WW2 US SIGNAL CORPS CHIEF OFFICER EUROPEAN THEATRE of OPERATIONS IDENTITY CARD VERY RARE! OFFICIAL! WW1 AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES OFFICIAL OFFICER'S IDENTITY CARD WITH THE ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH of MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM S. RUMBOUGH. William S. Rumbough (b.1892-d1980) was a United States (U.S.) Army officer. He started his military career with the Maryland National Guard in 1916 and was commissioned into the U.S. regular Army as a second lieutenant of infantry in 1917. After being promoted to Captain in the infantry he served in the American Expeditionary Forces in France. After the Armistace he was commissioned in the Signal Corps. Most of Rumbough’s military career focused on military communications work for the Signal Corps. From the 1920s through the early 1940s he had various assignments at the Army Signal School, the Office of the Chief Signal Officer and the Hawaiian Division. He was named commanding officer, Signal Corps Replacement Training Center, Camp Crowder, Missouri in October 1941. He then became Chief Signal Officer, European Theater of Operations (ETO) in May 1942. In July 1945 he returned to the U.S. and was assigned to the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, Washington D.C. as Chief of the Personell and Training Service. He retired from military service in 1946.” “As the ETO’s chief signal officer, General Rumbough faced a tremendous task. The invasion of Normandy, the largest Allied military operation of the war, presented the signal corps with the biggest challenge thus far in its history. The scale of communications would be roughly twenty-five times greater than that for TORCH.In January of 1944, General Eisenhower received the appointment as the European theater commander with the title of Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Forces. In tactical matters the new Supreme Headquarters, AEF (SHAEF), supplanted ETOUSA (European Theater of Operations, U.S. Army). Although General Runbough continued his job as chief signal officer in the ETOUSA staff, his duties were now confined primarily to the administrative and supply of the American Signal units in the theater.” -------------------------------------------------CONDITION IS EXTREMELY FINE OVERALL WITH SOME LIGHT HANDLING FROM THE WAR AND ITS 107+ YEARS. INCLUDES: PHOTO OF WILLIAM S. RUMBOUGH AS A CAPTAIN WEARING HIS U.S. ARMY OFFICER'S UNIFORM WITH CAPTAINS BARS, SAM BROWNE BELT, U.S. COLLAR INSIGNIAS , INFANTRY COLLAR INSIGNIAS. ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPHED SIGNATURE OF MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM S. RUMBOUGH (AS A CAPTAIN) SHARP FOCUSED PHOTO WITH VERY GOOD CONTRAST 4 PAGE SELF COVER BLACK PRINTED CLOTH OUTER WRAP COVER HEAVY PAPER BOARD A.E.F. OFFICIAL HAND STAMPING INSIDE LOWER LEFT : HEADQUARTERS OFFICIAL CAMP PONTANEZEN (2X) (Camp Pontanezen (France) was an immense American debarkation center built around six stone barracks buildings erected by Napoleon I. It was located two miles north of Brest, which is on France's Peninsula of Finisterre. The depth and excellence of the Brest harbor caused it to be utilized far more extensively than any other French port for the arriving and departing troops of the AEF. In all, 791,000 men landed here in 1917 and 1918. The Doughboys passing through were treated to an array of discomforts, wallowing in the mud and sleeping in tents or poorly heated barracks. It rains most of the year at Brest, and the roads, firm underneath, were coated with slippery, semi-fluid mud which caused countless trucks to spin out of control and thousands of Doughboys to suffer wet feet.) PARTIAL PRINTED IDENTITY BOOKLET HAND ID'D: No. 4488-5-5 AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES Corps Expéditionnaire Américain OFFICER'S IDENTITY CARD Carte d'Identité d'Officier Name. WILLIAM S. RUMBOUGHNom Rank. CAPTAIN INFANTRYGrade DutyFunction S.S.SchmidtMaj. A. G. USA (ADJUTANT GENERAL) EXP Signature of Holder. Adjutant General. Signature du Titulaire........... W. S. RUMBOUGH DIMENSIONS: 7 1/2" x 5" FOLDED TO 5" X 3 3/4" A PICTURE OF MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM S. RUMBOUGH 'S FACSIMILE AUTOGRAPH ON THE BOTTOM OF A SMALL WW2 EUROPEAN THEATER I.D. (CARD #799) IS FOR REFERENCE ONLY AND IS NOT INCLUDED WITH THIS LISTING. (please see pictures) THIS IS NOT A COPY OR A REPRODUCTION PLEASE SEE MY 100% POSITIVE FEEDBACK AND BUY WITH CONFIDENCE.

Price: 695 USD

Location: New York, New York

End Time: 2024-12-26T21:30:37.000Z

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