Military bases

Office of Military Government of the U.S. ("OMGUS") in Berlin, Germany. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Office of Military Government of the U.S. ("OMGUS") in Berlin, Germany. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Lieutenant Colonel Harry S. Truman (left) at Army Reserve Camp at Fort Riley, Kansas. He is chatting with Captain Hurd and leaning against military equipment. In the upper right corner of the photo, in Truman's handwriting is "Ft. Riley, Kans. 7-5 to 19-26." From: Truman home.

Former President Harry S. Truman (at far left in viewing stand) with unidentified military officers at a commissioning ceremony at the Marine Corps Air Station in Kane'ohe Bay, Hawaii.

Former President Harry S. Truman (far right) and two unidentified military officers at a commissioning ceremony at the Marine Corps Air Station in Kane'ohe Bay, Hawaii.

Margaret Truman (front row, fourth from right), Bess Wallace Truman (front row, far right), and other spectators at a commissioning ceremony at the Marine Corps Air Station in Kane'ohe Bay, Hawaii.

Former President Harry S. Truman (standing, far right) riding in Corporal A. R. Williams's Jeep with three unidentified military officers at the Marine Corps Air Station in Kane'ohe Bay, Hawaii.

Former President Harry S. Truman (left) with two unidentified U.S. military officers at a commissioning ceremony at the Marine Corps Air Station in Kane'ohe Bay, Hawaii.

Former President Harry S. Truman (right) walks with an unidentified U.S. three-star general at a commissioning ceremony at the Marine Corps Air Station in Kane'ohe Bay, Hawaii.

Unidentified members of Marine Aircraft Group 13 marching during a commissioning ceremony at the Marine Corps Air Station in Kane'ohe Bay, Hawaii.