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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: November 29, 2015
Caption: George C. Marshall
Additional Description: This c. 1949 portrait of George C. Marshall by Thomas E. Stephens hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.

“George C. Marshall was, according to one expert observer, the ‘perfect’ soldier. Endowed with a quick mind, a good memory, and a superb sense of strategy, he did not particularly relish war. Yet as chief of staff during World War II, he proved to be a masterful orchestrator of military mobilization. In 1945 President Harry Truman remarked that millions of Americans had served the country well in that conflict, but it had been Marshall who ‘gave it victory.’ As capable in peace as in wartime, Marshall later became Truman's secretary of state, and it was he who unveiled in 1947 the American aid program for rebuilding Europe's war-ravaged economies. Ultimately named the Marshall Plan, this venture became one of the greatest triumphs in the entire history of American diplomacy. ” — National Portrait Gallery
Submitted: October 23, 2017, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p401164
File Size: 2.781 Megabytes

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