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June 1949 Senator Estes Kefauver to Herbert Furlow, Tennessee Gen Chase 3rd Army

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A June 7, 1949 US Senator Estes Kefauver, Tennessee, sends a Western Union Telegraph to Herbert Furlow, Newspaper Editor, Bristol, Tennessee.  The telegraph lets Herbert Furlow that
US Army Major General William C. Chase, Chief of Staff of the Third Army headquartered at Fort McPherson, Georgia is available for a requested speaking engagement.
General Chase commanded the 1
st
Cavalry Division and later the 38
th
Division in fighting Japanese force during World War II.
The telegraph is 8 x 5 ¾ inches in size.  The telegraph has normal mailing folds and is in nice condition with no tears.
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William C. Chase
Major General
William Curtis Chase
(9 March 1895 – 21 August 1986) was an
American
soldier
and
General
in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his service in the
South West Pacific Area
during
World War II
and in the
Occupation of Japan
.
A graduate of
Brown University
, Chase enlisted in the
Rhode Island National Guard
in 1913 and served on the Mexican Border. Commissioned as a
second lieutenant
in the
cavalry
in January 1917, he served on the
Western Front
in
World War I
and in the
Occupation of the Rhineland
. Between the wars, he attended the
Command and General Staff College
at
Fort Leavenworth
, later returning as an instructor.
Chase was promoted to
Brigadier General
in March 1943 on assuming command of the 1st Brigade,
1st Cavalry Division
. He was chosen to lead the
assault on the Admiralty Islands
in February 1944. He resisted the temptation to swiftly overrun the island, and thereby overextend his forces, and formed a defensive perimeter that made good use of the terrain. From this position, he was able to defeat a series of counterattacks by the numerically superior Japanese garrison.
In February 1945, Chase's columns pushed into the northern outskirts of Manila, liberating some 3,700 internees at the
University of Santo Tomas
which had been turned into an
internment camp
. He took over command of the
38th Infantry Division
, which was confronted by enemy fortifications at Zig-Zag Pass on the
Bataan Peninsula
that took a week of hard fighting to reduce. Chase assumed command of the 1st Cavalry Division on 1 August 1945. He remained with it in the
Occupation of Japan
until he returned to the United States in January 1949. Later, he was chief of staff of the
Third Army
at
Fort McPherson
and head of the
Military Assistance Advisory Group
in
Taiwan
. Retiring from the Army, he earned a
Master of Arts
degree in history from
Trinity University
and taught
political science
at the
University of Houston
.