Generals

Photo showing Post Master General Robert E. Hannegan presenting to Gen. A. A. Vandegrift, Commandant of the U. S. Marine Corps, the first sheet of the Iwo Jima 3-cent stamp. The stamp depicts the raising of the flag on Iwo Jima. From: Beth Gore.

Photo of John H. Bradley, PM 2/C U.S.N., who was in the historic picture of the flag raising on Iwo Jima. Here he is shown receiving a sheet of the issue of the new Iwo Jima three-cent stamp from Post Master General Robert E. Hannegan. Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Wyoming, shown congratulating Bradley while Hannegan and Gen. A. A. Vandegrift, Marine Corps Commandant, look on. From: Beth Gore.

Photo of the Earl of Halifax, British Ambassador to the United States, making an official presentation to U. S. military leaders at the British Embassy on behalf of King George VI, the Insignia of Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Military Division of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath. Left to Right, General H. H. Arnold, Chief of the Army Air Forces; Admiral Ernest J. King, Chief of Naval Operations; Earl of Halifax; General George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army and Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Staff to the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy. From: Beth Gore.

Photo of candidate General Eurico Gasper Dutra, Partido Social Democratico Nominee for President of Brazil, in an election held December 2, 1945, From: Beth Gore.

General Jacob L. Devers, Chief of the Army Ground Forces, telling newsmen during a press conference that he hoped to put 7,000,000 men into a single Pacific punch at the Japanese. From: Beth Gore.

General Jacob L. Devers, who has been appointed Commander of the Army Ground Forces, replacing General Joseph W. Stilwell. From: Beth Gore.

General Jacob Devers, Commander of the Army Ground Forces, today visited Walter Reed Hospital. He spent his time chatting with some of the wounded officers and men who are convalescing there. He is shown here with Lt. Col. John K. Waters, son-in-law of General George Patton. From: Beth Gore

Five Army and Navy heads of the U. S. were presented with the French Grand Croix De La Legion, a honor by General Charles DeGaulle (center), Provisional President of France, in ceremonies at the French Embassy. Photo shows DeGaulle, left, making the presentation to Admiral William D. Leahy, left, as General George C. Marshall, Admiral Ernest J. King, General H. H. Arnold and General Brehon Somervell, look on. From: Beth Gore.

General Lucius D. Clay, American Commander in Germany, telling a press conference at the Pentagon that the Russians have developed a German Communist police force of 200,000 to 300,000 in the Soviet zone of Germany. From: Beth Gore.

A photo of General Lucius D. Clay (right) presenting the House Foreign Affairs Committee the general conditions in Berlin and the action of the American troops and personnel. Here he is shown with Chairman Charles Eaton, R-New York, left. From: Beth Gore.