Senior American Officer

This is the autograph of the last Senior American Officer at Stalag Luft III. Prior to the General's arrival, Colonel Delmar T. Spivey was the Senior American Officer. When the General arrived, he became the Senior American Officer and appointed Colonel Spivey to act as the Commandant of Center Compound, which, in the end, was approximately two thousand men, me included. The East Compound was British and had their own English Senior Commandant.
Maybe he was also in command of North Compound. South Compound had it's ranking officer as Commandant of South Compound. The same applied to West Compound. All of these Commandants were great men.