# Eisenhower’s wartime globe damaged during move to Hegseth’s office

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/pete-hegseths-aides-gouge-hole-in-eisenhowers-wwii-globe-after-he-demanded-historic-artifact-be-hauled-into-his-office/
- Published: 2026-10-22T14:08:06+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-22T14:24:28+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16230147/pete-hegseth-eisenhower-globe-damage-pentagon.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: Art, Culture, World

## Key points

- A Pentagon moving crew damaged a historic Eisenhower globe.
- The 30-inch globe fell, leaving a several-inch hole near Antarctica.
- The Army had planned a specialist move, but historians were furloughed.

## Summary

Aides to US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth damaged a historic globe while trying to move it into his Pentagon office. The Army confirmed that the 30-inch globe, associated with General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Second World War service, fell and suffered a hole several inches wide.

The Army had planned to use trained military historians to pack and document the move, but they were furloughed during a partial government shutdown. Hegseth’s staff sent its own crew instead, and the globe never reached his office; it is unclear who authorised the move. A card says the globe is thought to have been used by Eisenhower in 1942, while another globe bearing his and General Omar Bradley’s pen marks remains in the Army chief of staff’s office.

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