Vandenberg, Hoyt Sanford, 1899-1954

President Harry S. Truman looks through his binoculars at airplanes flying overhead during the Air Progress Demonstration at Andrews Air Force Base. Standing up is General Hoyt Vandenberg. Seated behind President Truman, in the military hat is General Omar Bradley. All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman visits Andrews Air Force Base for an Air Progress Demonstration. From left: General Laurence Kuter, General Robert Landry, President Truman, General Harry Vaughan, Secretary Stuart Symington, and General Hoyt Vandenberg .All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (center, with binoculars) visits Andrews Air Force Base for an Air Progress Demonstration. Walking on President Truman's left are: General Hoyt Vandenberg (behind Landry), General Robert Landry, and Colonel David Schilling. All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (foreground, left) presents the Distinguished Service Medal (3rd Oak Leaf Cluster) to General Carl Spaatz (foreground, center), United States Air Force, for exceptionally notorious and distinguished service as Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force. Standing from left to right behind the President and General Spaatz are: General Robert Landry, unidentified military officer, Secretary of the Navy John L. Sullivan, Mrs. Spaatz and family, Secretary of Air Force Stuart Symington, Admiral William D. Leahy, General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, and General Omar N. Bradley.

President Harry S. Truman (foreground, left) awards the Distinguished Service Medal (3rd Oak Leaf Cluster) to General Carl Spaatz, United States Air Force (foreground, center). Left to right: Mrs. Spaatz and family, Secretary of the Air Force Stuart Symington, Admiral William D. Leahy, General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, and General Omar N. Bradley. All others are unidentified.

Autographed photo of General Hoyt S. Vanderberg. "To the Honorable Clarence Osthagen with appreciation for fine service for the Air Force. Hoyt S. Vanderberg"

President Harry S. Truman (seated, left) presents Secretary of Defense George Marshall (seated, right) with one of the pens he used in signing the proclamation declaring May 19 as Armed Forces Day. Standing, from left to right: Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, General Hoyt Vandenberg, Secretary of the Army Frank Pace, Secretary of the Navy Francis P. Matthews, Secretary of the Air Force Thomas Finletter, and General Omar Bradley, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff.

From left to right General Hoyt Vandenberg, President Harry S. Truman, General Robert Landry and Colonel Godfrey McHugh (aide to General Vandenberg) pose outside the Little White House in Key West, Florida, during the President's vacation there.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace meets with members of the Armed Forces Policy Council. First row, left to right: Secretary of the Navy Dan Kimball, Deputy Secretary of Defense William C. Foster, Secretary of Defense Robert A. Lovett, Secretary Pace, and Secretary of the Air Force Thomas K. Finletter. Back row left to right: Admiral William M. Fechteler, General L. C. Shepherd, Jr., General Omar Bradley, General J. Lawton Collins, General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, and Colonel G. V. Underwood, Jr.

President Harry S. Truman is seated at his desk in the Oval Office, signing H.R. 5632, the National Security Act Amendments of 1949, which converted the National Military Establishment into a new Department of Defense and made other changes in the national security system.