U.S. Navy

Aboard the U.S.S. Missouri during shellback ceremonies for those crossing the equator for the first time, a "pollywog" is pitched into the Royal Tank where he is dunked by participating sailors. The ship is carrying President Harry S. Truman back from Brazil. From: Truman Home.

Aboard the U.S.S. Missouri on a return trip from Brazil, pollywog Merriman Smith (a newsman) is pitched backwards from a teetering chair into the Royal Tank where he is dunked by sailors anointed with a greasy concoction, during ceremonies for those crossing the equator for the first time. (See also 66-1325.) From: Truman Home.

A volunteer walks down "shillalah alley," a 60-foot double line of shellbacks armed with stuffed canvas billies, as they prepare to whack the pollywogs (those crossing the equator for the first time), a punishment meted out by the Royal Court during ceremonies held aboard the U.S.S. Missouri carrying President Harry S. Truman from Brazil to the U.S.A. (See also 66-1273.) From: Truman Home.

View of an unidentified young man tending a cow while on board U.S. Navy riverboat 1001. Identified as an official Navy photo, U.S. Navy Rhine River Patrol AP0633, by Wanowski, EN2, USN/LSU.

The President reverses the order and has the photographers hold for "just one more". From the album "President Truman's Trip to Rio de Janeiro.

From left to right, President Harry S. Truman, Major General Harry Vaughan, Admiral William D. Leahy, and William D. Hassett at Fort Jefferson National Monument. President Truman visited Fort Jefferson during his vacation trip to Key West, Florida. Others are unidentified.

Part of the crowd at Golden Gate Park for Flag Day Exercises, San Francisco, California. This was taken during President Harry S. Truman's trip to the west coast. He is not in this picture. From: The Album The President's Trip to the West Coast of the United States, Captain Robert Dennison, United States Navy donor

Part of the crowd at the Golden Gate Park for Flag Day Exercises in San Francisco, California. This was taken during President Harry S. Truman's trip to the west coast. He is not in the picture. From: The album The President's Trip to the West Coast of the United States, Captain Robert Dennison, United States Navy donor

Flag Day Ceremonies at Golden Gate Park, taken during President Harry S. Truman's trip to the west coast. President Truman is not in this picture. From: The Album The President's Trip to the West Coast of the United States, Captain Robert Dennison, United States Navy donor

A view of the San Francisco skyline from the Fairmont Hotel, taken during the Harry S. Truman western trip in June, 1948.