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image by Tom Gregg, 25 May 1998
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Positional Color, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army. This color is used by the Chief of Staff in lieu of the rank flag (red with four white stars and yellow fringe) that would normally be displayed by a four-star general. It is displayed with cord and tassels of red and white.
Tom Gregg, 25 May 1998
image by Tom Gregg, 26 May 1998
Positional Color, Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army. Similar to the Chief of Staff's color, but quartered diagonally. This color is displayed with cord and tassels of red and white.
Tom Gregg, 26 May 1998
image by Tom Gregg, 25 May 1998
Positional Color, Director of the Army Staff. The badge is the branch insignia of the General Staff. The black and yellow of this color derive from the cords of mixed black and gold that used to be worn by staff officers on the campaign hat. The Director of the Army Staff is a lieutenant general (three stars); he is the Army's top operations officer. This flag is also the positional color for the Deputy Chiefs of Staff.
Tom Gregg, 25 May 1998
image located by Bill Garrison, 13 February 2014
Posted on Ebay in 2014 was an original issue vintage auto fender flag as used by Dwight D. Eisenhower
while serving in Washington D.C. as Deputy Chief of the War Plans Division
(DCWPD) in late 1941 to early 1942. DCWPD Auto fender flag ~19"x 29"
background wool material is golden rod yellow in color, with a sewn on both
sides large black cotton star with the US Coat of Arms eagle outline
embroidered in the center. Above is a smaller white star outlined in black.
Inside the pole slip sleeve is a 22 Dec 1940 dated tag.
Service
History: In June 1941, Eisenhower was appointed Chief of Staff to General
Walter Krueger, Commander of the 3rd Army, at Fort Sam Houston in San
Antonio, Texas. He was promoted to brigadier general on 29 September 1941.
Eisenhower then served as Chief of Staff of the Blue Army in the
August-September 1941 Louisiana Maneuvers. After the 7 Dec 1941 Japanese
attack on Pearl Harbor Eisenhower was assigned to the General Staff in
Washington, where he served until June 1942 with responsibility for creating
the major war plans to defeat Japan and Germany. In the first days of the war
he had been appointed Deputy Chief in charge of Pacific Defenses under the
Chief of War Plans Division, General Leonard T. Gerow, and then succeeded
Gerow as Chief of the War Plans Division. Then he was appointed Assistant
Chief of Staff in charge of Operations Division under Chief of Staff General
George C. Marshall. It was his close association with Marshall that finally
brought Eisenhower to senior command positions. Marshall recognized his great
organizational and administrative abilities. Eisenhower was promoted to Major
General, Army of the United States on 27 March 1942.
Bill Garrison, 13 February 2014
This was the flag of a Brigadier General, General Staff, US Army, shown on
Flaggenbuch 1939.
Miles Li, 14 February 2014