Naval ceremonies, honors, and salutes

Spectators are assembled for the fleet review during Navy Day at Riverside Park in New York City, as several ships are in the Hudson River. Navy planes can be seen overhead.

President Harry S. Truman (far left), Admiral Jonas H. Ingram (second from left), and Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy (third from left) read a plaque aboard the USS Missouri marking where the signing of the surrender of Japan took place. Truman was on board the USS Missouri during Navy Day celebrations in New York City, New York. Others in the background are unidentified.

Spectators are assembled for the fleet review during Navy Day at Riverside Park in New York City, as several ships are in the Hudson River.

President Harry S. Truman (third from the left) looks out over the New York Harbor from the destroyer Renshaw on Navy Day. In the background is the USS Missouri giving off a salute to the President. Also pictured is First Lady Bess Truman (to the right of her husband) and Admiral Jonas Ingram (left). Other people in the photograph are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman, waving from the backseat of an open car, rides by onlookers during the Navy Day parade in New York City, New York. All others are unidentified.

Crowds of people fill Central Park in New York City to hear President Harry S. Truman's speech on Navy Day. All are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman delivers diplomas to the members of the graduating class of Fleet Sonar School, United States Naval Base, Key West, Florida. President Truman is standing at the center of the stage shaking hands with graduate. All other are unidentified.

Full body view of James C. Dunn, United States Ambassador to Italy, seen in the center of the photograph leaving a ship with others. He was attending a formal military exchange ceremony in which the United States Navy turned over two destroyers and six gunboats to the Italian Navy. Location was the port of Brindisi, just 70 miles from Soviet dominated Albania. United States and Italian naval personnel are in view behind the ambassador. Directly behind Ambassador Dunn and to the left is House of Representative Congressman Joseph W. Martin from the state of New York.

View of fortification area which was the site of a formal military exchange ceremony in which the United States Navy turned over two destroyers and six gunboats to the Italian Navy. The location of the event is the Italian port of Brindisi, just 70 miles from Soviet dominated Albania.

View of some of the participants in a formal military exchange ceremony in which the United States Navy turned over two destroyers and six gunboats to the Italian navy. Location was the port of Brindisi, Italy, just 70 miles from Soviet dominated Albania. Identification of the four men standing together include right to left: Italian Secretary of Defense Randolfo Pacciardi; U.S. Ambassador to Italy (1946-1952) James C. Dunn; U.S. Admiral Robert B. Carney; and U.S. Congress Representative Joseph W. Martin from New York. The men appear to be on one of the ships involved in the exchange.