Maj. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor (right), named officially yesterday to command the American Military Government and the Army forces in Berlin, and Brig. Gen. Frank Howley, look at a map of Berlin in headquarters there on Tuesday. General Taylor, wartime paratroop leader, succeeds Howley as commandant and Col. James T. Duke as commander of the Berlin military a post. The double authority was given him "in order to unify the United States position in Berlin." August 7, 1949. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Maj. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor (right), named officially yesterday to command the American Military Government and the Army forces in Berlin, and Brig. Gen. Frank Howley, look at a map of Berlin in headquarters there on Tuesday. General Taylor, wartime paratroop leader, succeeds Howley as commandant and Col. James T. Duke as commander of the Berlin military a post. The double authority was given him "in order to unify the United States position in Berlin." August 7, 1949. (Photo by AP Wirephoto). Stock Photo
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8 July 1949

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