Armed forces officers

Lieutenant Colonel Norma M. Flachsland, First Army WAC Staff Advisor (left) presents the first piece of cake to Mrs. Betsy Talbot Blackwell (second from left), editor of "Mademoiselle" magazine and member of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services, while former WAC director, Colonel Westray B. Leslie (Ret) (second from right) and First Army Commander, Lieutenant General B.M. Bryan (right) look on. The party, in celebration of the sixteenth anniversary of the Women's Army Corps, was held at Fort Jay, New York.

From left to right, Mrs. Betsy Talbot Blackwell, Editor-in-Chief of "Mademoiselle", Colonel Westray Battle Boyce Leslie (Ret), the second director of the WAC (1945-1947); Lieutenant Colonel Norma M. Flachsland, WAC Staff Advisor for the First Army at Fort Jay, Major General Robert H. Booth, Chief of Staff, First United States Army; Mrs. Webster Todd, and Mrs. Robert H. Booth. Lieutenant Colonel Flachsland and Major General Booth are cutting into a cake at a celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of the founding of the Women's Army Corps. Mrs. Blackwell and Mrs.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (foreground, in civilian clothes, wearing hat) greets an unidentified Italian soldier during a visit to Italy. The group is standing in front of a tank. All others are unidentified.

United States Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (on viewing stand, fifth from left, in civilian clothes and sunglasses) watching a demonstration of tank maneuvers by Italian soldiers during his visit to Italy. All other soldiers and military officers are unidentified.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (left) inspecting a United States Army truck during an inspection trip to United States Army installations in Austria. Also present is Brigadier General William T. Fitts, Junior (center), the Commanding General of the Vienna, Austria Regional Ordnance Center. All others in the background are unidentified.

Guests are standing in line as they are greeted at a reception for General Zenon Noriega Aguero, the Minister of War of Peru, which was held at Hop Hall, Fort Myer, Virginia. From left to right: two unidentified military officers, Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (partly obscured), unidentified woman, Margaret (Mrs. Frank) Pace.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (foreground, in civilian clothes, wearing hat) walks past a line of tanks and soldiers during a visit with Italian troops. All others are unidentified.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace is photographed during an inspection trip to various United States Army Installations in Austria with American Ambassador to Austria Walter J. Donnelly, far left and Lieutenant General S. Leroy Irwin, far right.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (second from left) inspects the Vienna Regional Ordnance Center during an inspection trip of United States Army installations in Austria. Here he shakes hands with an unidentified Austrian employee of the Ordnance Center. Also present are Major General Floyd L. Parks, Army Chief of Information (left), and Brigadier General William T. Fitts, Junior, Commanding General of the Vienna, Austria military post (second from right).

Secretary Frank Pace (foreground) leave the American Legation in Vienna, Austria, following a press conference held there during his recent inspection tour of United States Army installations in Europe. Behind him is Lieutenant General S. Leroy Irwin (third from left). All others are unidentified.