Military bases

Unidentified United States Army and Air Force officers at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska. They are preparing to see off Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (not pictured) and General J. Lawton Collins, who visited the base. A military airplane is visible in the background. General Collins may be the man second from the left in the foreground.

Unidentified United States Army and Air Force officers at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska. They are preparing to see off Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (not pictured) and General J. Lawton Collins, who visited the base. A military airplane is visible in the background.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (top of steps) and General J. Lawton Collins (second from top) boarding a Military Air Transport Service airplane and departing Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska. The other armed forces officers at the foot of the steps are unidentified.

Photo of Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (right) and his wife Margaret (left) with General and Mrs. Wade H. Haislip (center) at the Officers Club, Fort McNair, for General Haislip's retirement reception and dinner.

Photo of Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (second from left) and his wife Margaret (background, third from left) with General Wade H. Haislip (second from right) at his wife, (left) at the Officers Club, Fort McNair. They are in a receiving line at a reception and dinner given in honor of General Haislip's retirement. The man on the right is unidentified.

General and Mrs. Wade H. Haislip arriving at the retirement reception held in the General's honor at the Officers Club at Fort McNair. The soldier on the right is unidentified.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (right) pauses in an unofficial tour of the United States Hospital, Camp Edwards, Massachusetts to chat with 2nd Lieutenant Leo B. Eldridge, a Korean veteran double amputee. Looking on is Captain Sue G. Carey, Army Nurse Corps.

Reception line at a retirement reception for General Wade Haislip at the Officers Club at Fort McNair. Left to Right: Margaret (Mrs. Frank) Pace, General and Mrs. Wade Haislip, and Secretary of the Army Frank Pace. All others are unidentified.

Receiving line at a retirement reception for General Wade Haislip at the Officer's Club at Fort McNair. Left to Right: Margaret (Mrs. Frank) Pace, General Wade H. Haislip unidentified woman, Mrs. Wade Haislip (mostly obscured), Secretary of the Army Frank Pace, and an unidentified man.

Retirement dinner reception given by General and Mrs. J. Lawton Collins in honor of General and Mrs. Wade H. Haislip at the Officer's Club at Fort McNair. Among those pictured at the table are (on the far side, from left to right) Margaret (Mrs. Frank) Pace; Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Lovett; Mrs. Wade H. Haislip; Secretary of the Army Frank Pace; and General Haislip. All others are unidentified.