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JFG/ww/1650

WAR DEPARTMENT
The Adjutant Geeral's Office
Washington

AG 201-Davis, Benjamin O.,
(5-23-42)OP

SUBJECT: Temporary appointment, Army of the United States.

TO: ^[[checkmark]] Major Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., A.C.,
Southeast Training Center,
Maxwell Field, Alabama

1. The President, on this date, promoted you, temporarily, a lieutenant colonel in the Army of the United States (Air Corps), under the provisions of Public Law 455, 77th Congress, approved February 16, 1942, with rank from March 1, 1942.

2. It is requested that you execute the required oath of office on the form provided herewith, W.D., A.G.O. Form 0337-T, and return it without delay directly to this office.

3. Commissions issued to commissioned personnelas a result of temporary promotion in the Army of the United States have been discontinued for the period of the War.

By order of the Secretary of War:

/s/ Henry D. Kinslow
Adjutant General

1 Incl.
(Form for oath of office_

A TRUE COPY: 

JOHN W. GRAHAM
Captain, Air Corps
Adjutant

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