Generals

Left to right: General Peyton C. March, General John J. Pershing, and Secretary of War Newton D. Baker are shown aboard a welcoming tug as General Pershing arrives home from overseas in 1918. From: Pershing Tousley, Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

President Harry S. Truman (front left) and Vice President Alben Barkley (front center) on inaugural stand. Seated to the right of Vice President Barkley is General Harry Vaughan.

President Harry S. Truman (front left) and Vice President Alben Barkley (front right) on inaugural stand. Also pictured are General Omar Bradley (second row, left) and General Harry Vaughan (front row, far right).

From left to right, Margaret Truman, General Dwight Eisenhower, former President Harry S. Truman, Dr. Harold W. Dodds, former President Herbert Hoover at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. Truman was given an honorary degree at the Bicentennial Commencement at Princeton.

Cartoon, entitled "The voice of experience," by Newton Pratt, depicting former President Harry S. Truman, General Douglas MacArthur, and Senator Robert Taft.

The nation's top military leaders hold a weekend meeting in Newport, Rhode Island (see 2002-98). Pictured are three who attended the meeting (left to right): General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Air Force Chief; Admiral Louis E. Denfield, Chief of Naval Operations; and General J. Lawton Collins, Army Chief of Staff. From: Pershing Touseley, Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Colonel L. B. Puller, First Marine Division; General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, Commander in Chief United Nations Forces in Korea; Major General O. P. Smith, CG First Marine Division; and Vice Admiral Arthur D. Struble, Commander Joint Task Force Seven, accompanied by staff officers and newsmen, observe action from a hill overlooking the 1st Marine Regimental front.

General Douglas MacArthur (seated) Commander in Chief, United Nations forces in Korea, and members of his staff view pre-landing bombardment and air strikes from the flag bridge of the U.S.S. Mt. McKinley in Korean waters off Inchon, as United Nations forces begin their offensive in that section. Left to right: Brigadier General Courtney Whitney, Chief, Government Section GHQ Scap; General MacArthur; Brigadier General E. K. Wright, Assistant Chief of Staff, G-3 Section, GHQ FEC; and Major General Edward M. Almond, CG X Corps.

President Harry S. Truman (left) and General Dwight D. Eisenhower (right) walking away from the General's airplane on the snowy runway at Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C. The man in the Navy uniform on the right is Admiral Robert Dennison. All others are unidentified.

General Jonathan Wainwright, hero of Bataan, today received the Philippine Medal for Valor in a ceremony at the Philippine Embassy. Ambassador Joaquin Elizalde presented the Medal on behalf of President Manuel Roxas of the Philippine Republic. Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson looks on, right. From: Beth Gore. From: Beth Gore.