ORIGINAL RARE WW1 US ARMY BRIG. GENERAL HUGH A. DRUM NEWS WIRE PHOTO c1918 For Sale
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ORIGINAL RARE WW1 US ARMY BRIG. GENERAL HUGH A. DRUM NEWS WIRE PHOTO c1918:
$195.00
ORIGINAL! RARE! WW1 US ARMY BRIG. GENERAL HUGH A. DRUM 1918 NEWS WIRE PHOTOORIGINAL! RARE! WW1 US ARMY BRIGADIER GENERAL HUGH A. DRUM IN 1918. NEWS WIRE PHOTO.LATE 1918 PHOTOGRAPH OF BRIGADIER GENERAL HUGH A. DRUM IN WW1 BRIGADIER GENERAL UNIFORMFROM THE REFERENCE ARCHIVE OF THE NEWSWIRE COMPANY, BEING REPURPOSED FOR USE IN A JANUARY 1930 ARTICLE ABOUT HIS NEW ARMY PROMOTION TO MAJOR GENERAL.
LARGE DETAILED SEPIA PHOTO OF BRIGADIER GENERAL ' HUGH A. DRUM 'IN HIS WW1BRIGADIER GENERAL UNIFORM WITH RIBBON BAR, THAT INCLUDES HIS DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDAL RIBBON.
Hugh Aloysius Drum (b.1879-d.1951) was a career U.S. Army officer who served in WW1 and WW2. He was notable for his service as chief of staff of the 1st U.S. Army during WW1 and commander of 1st Army during the initial days of WW2. During WW1 Drum served as chief of staff for 1st U.S.Army, and led the planning for 1st Army's participation in the Saint Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives. In October 1918 he was then promoted to temporary brigadier general and received the Army Distinguished Service Medal. After the war, Drum commanded 1st Infantry Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, Fifth Corps Area, and the Hawaiian Department. In 1951 Pine Camp, an Army training site near Watertown, New York, was renamed Camp Drum in General Drum's honor The post is now known as Fort Drum, and is home to the Army's 10th Mountain Division.
SHARP FOCUS AND VERY GOOD CONTRAST.
CONDITION IS EXTREMELY FINE.
FRAME DIMENSIONS: 6 1/16" x 8"
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Titles of Distinction
- Hero of the Soviet Union
- Hero of Socialist Labor
- Pilot-Cosmonaut of USSR
- Dist. Military Pilot USSR
- Dist. Military Navigator USSR
- Dist. Test Pilot USSR
- Dist. Test Navigator USSR
- Distinguished Pilot USSR
- Dist. Navigator USSR
Orders of Distinction
- Order of Lenin
- Order of October Revolution
- Order of the Red Banner
- Order of Suvorov
- Order of Ushakov
- Order of Kutuzov
- Order of Nakhimov
- Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky
- Order of Alexander Nevsky
- Order of the Patriotic War
- Order of Red Banner of Labor
- Order of Friendship
- Order of the Red Star
- Order Service to Motherland
- Order of the Badge of Honor
- Order of Honor
- Order of Personal Courage
- Order of Glory
- Order of Labor Glory
- Order of Mother Heroine
- Order of Maternal Glory