Armed forces reserves

A group of unidentified soldiers and reservists are standing next to a tank.

Captain Harry S. Truman (seated, right, with moustache) sits with two other unidentified officers at Army Reserve camp.

Harry S. Truman is mounted on a cavalry horse while at military camp.

Harry S. Truman (left) and three unidentified other reservists are mounted on cavalry horses while at military camp.

Senator Harry S. Truman (center) is eating dinner with Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Bourke and Colonel G. M. Peek. The dinner at the Hotel Baltimore honored Senator Truman for taking command to the 379th Field Artillery Reserve.

From left to right, Harry S. Truman, John W. Snyder, Ted Marks, and Edward McKim stand outside a tent at Camp Ripley, Minnesota.

Ilona Massey (second from right) stands with unidentified members of the Reserve Officers Association at a dinner meeting at the Redstone Officers Open Mess.

Former President Harry S. Truman (left) has a warm handshake for Strom Thurmond, former governor of South Carolina and Dixiecrat candidate for President in 1948, as the two met in a receiving line at the Reserve Officer's Association convention dinner in Philadelphia tonight. When questioned later on what words passed between them, Thurmond said it was just a "greeting of one reserve officer to another." Both Truman and Thurmond are colonels in the U.S. Army. In center is Capt. Robert G. Burke, USNR, national president of the Reserve Officer's Association. From: Houston Post.

Former President Harry S. Truman chats with Dewey Short (right), Assistant Secretary of the Army for the Reserves, while Lt. Col. Robert E. Adams (center) stands behind Truman and gestures to someone out of sight. All are attending a Reserve Officers Association awards banquet. From: Robert E. Adams, Research Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (center) greets Colonel John E. Coleman (right), United States Army Reserve (USAR), new president of the Reserve Officers Association, in Secretary Pace's office at the Pentagon. Brigadier E.A. Evans (left), USAR, executive director of the Reserve Officers Association, looks on.