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Charles W. Thayer With Other Uniformed Officials in Yugoslavia

Exterior view showing diplomat and author Charles W. Thayer standing third from the left in U.S. Army uniform and saluting. He is in line with ten other men, most in uniform and some believed to be Russian. Penciled on the back of the photograph is the following left to right: Gen'l [Nikolai Vasilievich] Korneev, Brig. [Fitzroy] MacLean, C.W.T. [Charles W. Thayer], Marshall Tito ? (center, back showing, and shaking hands). Location probably Yugoslavia, World War II era. Thayer served as Chief of U.S. Military Mission to Yugoslavia, 1944-45 and attained the rank of Lt. Col. in the Army.

Army-Navy Football Game

Scene in the stands during the annual Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Seated behind the Presidential flag on the brick wall are, from left to right: General Wallace Graham, unidentified woman, Averell Harriman, two unidentified women, President Harry S. Truman, First Lady Bess W. Truman, Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark, Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder, unidentified woman, and Press Secretary Charles Ross. Standing directly behind President Truman is General Harry Vaughan. Seated in the second row, visible between President and Mrs.

Army-Navy Football Game

Scene in the stands during the annual Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Seated behind the Presidential flag on the brick wall are, from left to right: Averell Harriman (partly obscured), two unidentified women, President Harry S. Truman, First Lady Bess W. Truman, Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark, Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder, unidentified woman, and Press Secretary Charles Ross. Seated behind President Truman is General Harry Vaughan. All others are unidentified.

Return of Truman from Wake Island

President Harry S. Truman greeted by members of his Cabinet and staff upon his return from the conference on Wake Island with General Douglas MacArthur. From left to right: Special Assistant to the President Averell Harriman, Secretary of Defense George Marshall, President Truman, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, unidentified (partly obscured by Snyder), Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder, Secretary of the Army Frank Pace, and General Omar Bradley. Others are unidentified.

Truman and Eisenhower at Armed Forces Day Parade

Dignitaries with President Harry S. Truman on the reviewing stand during the Armed Forces Day parade. From left to right: Secretary of the Army Frank Pace, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, President Truman, Admiral William Leahy, and Deputy Secretary of Defense Stephen Early. In the center in the second row is Attorney General J. Howard McGrath. All others are unidentified.