Presidential trips

President Harry S. Truman whistlestop campaigning in Missoula, Montana. Donated by E. E. Jeffers, who has donated his rights to the Harry S. Truman Library.

Presidential airplane, The Independence. From an album of photographs of the visit of President Harry S. Truman to Wake Island for a conference with General Douglas MacArthur. General MacArthur's plane, SCAP, follows the Independence in take-off.

President Harry S. Truman (center) meets the captains of the Army and the Navy football teams prior to the start of the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (left) and General Harry Vaughan (center) leave for Wake Island. The other man in the photo is unidentified, but is possibly Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder.

Everyone stands at attention at a flag-raising (Flag of Liberation) ceremony in Berlin, Germany. From left to right, General Dwight Eisenhower, General George Patton, and President Harry S. Truman. President Truman is in Germany to attend the Potsdam Conference. Standing behind President Truman is Captain James Vardaman, Truman's Naval Aide. All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman and General Douglas MacArthur at President Truman's arrival at the Wake Island Conference.

President Harry S. Truman and General Douglas MacArthur held a shirt-sleeve conference at Wake Island on Communist aggression in the Far East, the Korean War, and world peace. In this photo, the two meet face to face for the first time.

President Harry S. Truman awards Distinguished Service Medal, Fourth Oak Leaf Cluster, to General Douglas McArthur during the Wake Island Conference.

Press Secretary Charlie Ross informing reporters that Wake Island is to be the scene of a conference between President Truman and General Douglas MacArthur.

Left to right: Lieutenant Commander Dorothy Richard, United States Navy, secretary Vernice Anderson, and Ambassador-at-Large Philip C. Jessup in Hawaii on the way to Wake Island.