Marines

22nd Marines from Quantico Marine base in inaugural parade. Original photograph is in a photo album of inaugural events.

Quantico Marine Band at 1949 inaugural parade. Original photograph is in a photo album of inaugural events.

Iwo-Jima float, Marine Reserve Officers Association, during the inaugural parade. Original photograph is in a photo album of inaugural events.

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.

General Clifton B. Cates, Commandant of the U. S. Marine Corps, telling the House Armed Services Committee that the Army General Staff has dealt "A severe and telling blow" to national security in its efforts to cripple the Corps as a fighting force. He said the blow at their service was planned more than four years ago by General J. Lawton Collins, now Army Chief of Staff. From: Beth Gore.

A group of Marines from Platoon 122 in San Diego, California. Addressed "To the President, From all of us, Platoon 122". Sent to President Harry S. Truman by Thomas W. Simmons

On the White House lawn, President Harry S. Truman (foreground, left) presents the Congressional Medal of Honor to P.F.C. Franklin E. Sigler, U.S. Marines Corps (right). With President Truman is Commodore James K. Vardaman (background, left) and Captain Clark Clifford (background, second from left). All others are unidentified. From: George H. Sigler.

Portrait of Colonel William T. Clement, United States Marine Corps.