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Black-and-white military portrait photograph of General Matthew B. Ridgway, measuring approximately 8" x 10". The image depicts Ridgway in uniform wearing a helmet, prominently displaying his four-star insignia, with United Nations flags visible in the background. Boldly inscribed and signed in black felt tip across the lower portion, including an inscription and dated July 3, 1976.
Matthew Bunker Ridgway (3 March 1895 – 26 July 1993) was a senior officer in the United States Army, who served as Supreme Allied Commander Europe (1952–1953) and the 19th Chief of Staff of the United States Army (1953–1955). Although he saw no combat service in World War I, he was intensively involved in World War II, where he was the first Commanding General (CG) of the 82nd Airborne Division, leading it in action in Sicily, Italy and Normandy, before taking command of the newly formed XVIII Airborne Corps in August 1944. He held the latter post until the end of the war in mid-1945, commanding the corps in the Battle of the Bulge, Operation Varsity and the Western Allied invasion of Germany.
With One of a Kind Collectibles LOA.