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Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless .32 ACP - Issued to Lt. General Donald V. Bennett
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Hoglund Collection
Colt Model M .32 ACP serial number 568749 issued to
Lieutenant General Donald V. Bennett, Author of the
book "Honor Untarnished". Graduate of West Point in 1940.
Fought in North Africa, Sicily, and landed on Omaha beach on
D-day as a Colonel of a mobile artillery Battalion. He is
believed to have been the highest ranking officer to have
landed on Omaha on June 6th (although cannot be proven), and
was in the first wave of landing crafts. He was awarded the
Bronze Star, Distinguished Service Cross and Medal, Purple
Heart, Legion of Merit and Commendation Medal. After the war
he became the Director of strategic plans and policy, the
Superintendent of West Point, followed by Commanding General
of the VII corps in Europe, Director of the Defense
Intelligence Agency, Commanding General 8th U.S. Army,
Commander in Chief of United Nations Command, and finally
Commander of U.S. Forces in Korea. He retired in August 1974
as a 4 star General. |
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