Armed forces reserves

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.

Left to right: Harry S. Truman, Harry H. Vaughan, and John W. Snyder at Camp Riley, Kansas.

Navy Under Secretary Francis P. Whitehair (center) presents colors to the reactivated Marine Reserve Rifle Company at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Others unidentified.

Photograph of Harry S. Truman in Army Reserve uniform. From: W. M. Fricke.

Photograph of those present at the summer Reserve encampment at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Major Harry S. Truman (379th Field Artillery) is third from the right in the last row. A menu/program for the annual dinner of the 102nd Division held on July 27, 1923, lists the guests present (including Truman) by unit and is in the Museum Collection (No. 79-22-1). From: Colonel P. A. Fredericksen, American Legion Post #285, Hamilton, Mo. 64644.

Lieutenant Colonel Harry S. Truman (left) at Army Reserve Camp at Fort Riley, Kansas. He is chatting with Captain Hurd and leaning against military equipment. In the upper right corner of the photo, in Truman's handwriting is "Ft. Riley, Kans. 7-5 to 19-26." From: Truman home.