Major General Anthony C. McAuliffe.
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1946
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Negative of an art work depicting a portrait of Major General Anthony C. McAuliffe. Govt. Catalog # P.2.15.47. Framed oil on canvas. Large portrait. Info card attached reads: In WWII, at Bastogne, when the Germans asked him to surrender, his answer was "nuts." He received that message on December 22, 1944. At that time he was Acting Commander of the 101st Airborne Division in the absence of General Maxwell D. Taylor, who was in Washington at the time on a brief assignment. By Schlaikjer, 1946.
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The images in this collection are for study purposes, teaching, classroom projection and research only. Permission to publish these digital files in any form must be obtained from the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, 806-742-9070 or e-mail reference.swco@ttu.edu.