Comments: This pass is in
mint condition, is printed on thin paper and has the appearance of a
bank note type engraving. It was thought that an official looking
document would be taken more seriously by the German soldiers and
thus be more effective! The red side is printed in German and
English, the reverse is in German and French. The "ZG76" had
a print run of 10,000,000 and the Allies dropped 8,740,000 from
November 1944 to February 1945.
The pass is signed by Dwight Eisenhower, Supreme Commander, Allied
Expeditionary Force. In January 1944 he resumed command of European
Theatre of Operations (ETOUSA). In February 1944 he was officially
designated as the Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied
Expeditionary Force (SHAEF). He was in charge of the planning
and the carrying out of the assault on Normandy, code named
"Operation Overlord" in June 1944 to liberate Europe.To view other images
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