U.S. Navy
President Harry S. Truman, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, and General George S. Patton
President Truman pinning medal on General MacArthur
Portrait of Admiral Robert L. Dennison
Portrait of Frank Pace
Photograph of Frank Pace, Jr., taken in Yokosuka, Japan, on his tour of the Far East. He had been Special Assistant to the U.S. Attorney General, Taxation Division, 1946; Executive Assistant to the U.S. Postmaster General, 1946-1948; Assistant Director, Bureau of the Budget, 1948-1949; Director, Bureau of the Budget, 1949-1950; and Secretary of the Army, 1950-1953.
Margaret Truman Christening the Battleship USS Missouri
Margaret Truman prepares to break a champagne bottle on the bow of the USS Missouri to christen it during a ceremony at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York. Left to right: Rear Admiral Monroe Kelly, Rear Admiral Sherman S. Kennedy, Senator Harry S. Truman (obscured), and Margaret Truman.
Truman Family at the Launching of the USS Missouri
From left to right, Senator Harry S. Truman, Margaret Truman with a bouquet of flowers, Bess Truman, and Rear Admiral Sherman Kennedy at the christening and launching of the battleship USS Missouri at the Navy Yard in Brooklyn, New York.
Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Blast
Sailors Pose for a Group Photo at Shangri-La, Maryland
Sailors and officers assigned to Shangri-La pose for a group photo at the Navy Rest Camp in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland. Front row, left to right: J.A. Hare, J.H. Sherwood, A.G. Neal, J.E. Reeves, R.W. Lyle, unidentified man in black shirt, Michael Zook, C.H. Kilgore, D.J. Lewis, F.J. Chard, J.B. Miller, D.E. Wilson; back row, left to right: L.L. Prichard, G.L. Anspach, J.D. Tasker, J.D. Pate, T.B. Boies, H.H. Violette, J.H. Stafford, R.F. Hutt, P. Farrell, W.J. Dombrowski, and T.E. Wiles. The Camp is also used as a presidential retreat. It has been renamed Camp David.
Gateway Sign to Shangri-la, Maryland
Wooden gateway sign to Shangri-la, Maryland, where President Harry S. Truman enjoys short vacations. (See also 72-3107). The name was later changed to Camp David. From: Naval Photo Center, sent to the Truman Library by the National Archives. Original 4x5 negative.