A historic globe associated with Dwight D. Eisenhower was damaged during an attempt to move it to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon office, U.S. Army officials said.
Hegseth had asked for the globe, one of two similar artifacts from the 1930s kept at the Pentagon, to be placed in his office. People familiar with the February incident said his aides tried to move it themselves rather than wait for specialist movers and dropped it.
An Army spokesperson confirmed damage during the attempted move. Photographs show pieces beneath the globe’s wooden frame and a gash near its base. The 30-inch globe is said to have been used by Eisenhower while planning the D-Day landings as Allied supreme commander.
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