US WW2 Handwritten Order by Brigadier General Ridgway

In a very good condition and hard to find an original US WW2 handwritten Order by Brigadier General and Commander Matthew Bunker Ridgway.
The order was made in July 13,1942 at the Headquarters of the 82nd Infantry Division (Ridgway was Commander during this period) and the 82nd became on August 15, 1942 an Airborne Division.
The order was issued to the Commander of the 327th Infantry Regiment that his regiment must be transfered to the third army.

The 327th Infantry Regiment was later again transferred to the new (and later formed) 101st Airborne Division.
A very historic order, that comes with the original signature of this famous General Ridgway!

General Matthew Bunker Ridgway (March 3, 1895 – July 26, 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 "All American" 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.

Ridgway held several major commands after World War II and was most famous for resurrecting the United Nations (UN) war effort during the Korean War. Several historians have credited Ridgway for turning the war around in favor of the UN side. He also persuaded President Dwight D. Eisenhower to refrain from direct military intervention in the First Indochina War to support French colonial forces, thereby essentially delaying the United States' Vietnam War by over a decade. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom on May 12, 1986. Ridgway died in 1993 at the age of 98.

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