General Rapp Brush leads a planning meeting with four other officers on New Britain in July 1944

U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph, Gift of Donald E. Mittelstaedt, from the collection of the National WWII Museum
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From Volume 1: South Pacific Theater. General Rapp Brush (Commanding Officer, 40th Infantry Division) leads a planning meeting with four other officers, all standing around a table with a large map spread out and written on. "Gen. Brush, CO 40th Div, plans operations strategy with staff & regimental commanders (Jul 44)." New Britain (Cape Gloucester, Cape Hoskins, or Talasea). July 1944

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1944-07-
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Items from the service of Donald E. Mittelstaedt, consisting of photographs of the 161st Signal Photographic Company Combat Unit #10 which served on Espiritu Santos, Guadalcanal, New Britain, New Guinea, Noemfor, Leyte, Samar and Luzon.
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New Britain
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Generals--American--New Britain