WILLIAM C. CHASE
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(1895 – 1986) American general, commander 1st Cavalry Division. He was chosen to lead the assault on the Admiralty Islands in February 1944. Approaching Manila, he liberated 3,700 internees at the University of Santo Tomas which had been turned into an internment camp and took enemy fortifications at Zig-Zag Pass on the Bataan Peninsula. Fine association signed book: 'The 1st Cavalry Division in World War II' (Tokyo: Toppan Printing Co.), 1947. 246pp. 4to., an illustrated history of the famous division inscribed on the half-title page: 'Tokyo, Japan 5 Oct. 1948 To Brig. Gen. C. S. Ferrin our super sheriff With the best wishes of the First Team Wm. C. Chase Maj. Gen. U.S.A.' Cloth covers a bit frayed and soiled, else very good. CHARLES S. FERRIN (1892-1976) was a highly-decorated Army brigadier general, most notably served as the Provost Marshal of Tokyo after war's end and charged with the security of the International Military Tribunal, Far East, during the incarceration of the Japanese war criminals. During World War II, he was an Assistant Plans Officer at Pearl Harbor and the Artillery Commander of the 27th Infantry Division which fought with distinction at Eniwetok, Saipan and Okinawa.
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