Brigadier General Ready discussing upcoming invasions with wall charts inside unidentified ship's cabin in January 1944

Gift of George Gottschalk, from the Collection of The National WWII Museum
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Brigadier General discussing upcoming invasions with wall charts inside unidentified ship's cabin. 'W-CPA-44-112-ES. 1/44. Young. Brig. Gen. Ready giving orientation lecture to officers and non-coms of 7th Div. Lt. Col. Roy A. Green is in background.' Signal Corps Photograph. On route to Marshall Islands. January 1944

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Collection of photographs from the service of Brigadier General LeRoy J. Stewart, 7th Infantry Division, Commander of the 76th Field Artillery Battalion, and Chief of Staff who participated in the Aleutian Islands Campaign and Kwajalein invasion. Stewart was on the US Equestrian Team and participated in the 1932 Olympics. Graduated from the Citadel and West Point. Assumed command of the Field Artillery Battalion in the Aleutians. He later served as Commanding General and Artillery Officer on Kwajelein, Phillipines and Okinawa. He retired in 1951. Deceased January 1983.
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Kwajalein
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9.250
Longitude: 
167.500
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Generals--American--Kwajalein
Maps--Kwajalein
Military officers--American--Kwajalein