Airports

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (third from left) greets a group of officers and others at an airport while on a visit to the Riverbank Ordnance Plant in California. All others are unidentified.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (center foreground) exits an airplane and walks toward an officer to shake his hand at the Riverbank Ordnance Plant in California. All others in photo are unidentified.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (foreground, left) is greeted upon his arrival at U.S. Naval Terminal at Capodichino Airport in Naples, Italy by Admiral Robert B. Carney, United States Navy, Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe (foreground, second from left). All others are unidentified.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (center, wearing hat, with hand extended) talks to a crowd at an airport while visiting the Riverbank Ordnance Plant in California.

Admiral Robert B. Carney, United States Navy, Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe, (right) greets Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (left) on his arrival at Capodichino Airport, Naples, Italy, to visit with the U.S. and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) commander and Italian minister of Defense Randolfo Pacciardi (not pictured). Others in background are unidentified.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (second from left) says a few words of greeting over the radio at Naples, Italy upon his arrival by Military Air Transport Service airplane for high-level conferences with American and Italian officials. With him is United States Navy Admiral Robert Carney (right), Commander-in-Chief of Allied Forces in Southern Europe. All others are unidentified.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace addresses a group that is witnessing the unveiling of the new Army XH-26 helicopter at Torrance Airport in Torrance, California.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (standing at podium) addressing a group of important visitors during a demonstration of the new Army XH-26 Helicopter at Torrance Airport in Torrance, California. Armed forces officers and others seated behind Pace are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (right) is greeted by Captain Cecil Adell upon his arrival at the Boca Chica airfield. President Truman is on his way to the Little White House, Key West, Florida to vacation after winning the election for his second term. In the background is the presidential airplane, the Independence.

From left to right, Washington Governor Monrad C. Wallgren, an unidentified man, Margaret Truman, First Lady Bess W. Truman and General Harry H. Vaughan watch departure ceremonies at the airport in Key West, Florida. They are preparing to return to Washington, D.C. after a vacation in Florida with President Harry S. Truman (not pictured). All others are unidentified.