Sailors

A contingent of sailors and Marines line up between two buildings to await the arrival of President Harry S. Truman at the Boca Chica Naval Air Base, Florida for a vacation. All are unidentified. From: Naval Photo Center, sent to the Truman Library by the National Archives. Original 4x5 transparency.

General Charles DeGaulle (with his back to the camera) speaks with an unidentified military officer. He appears to be presenting the officer with an award. Unidentified sailors stand in the background. From the scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, Vol 2.

President Harry S. Truman presents six Congressional Medals of Honor. From left to right in the front are Private First Class Mike Colalillo, Captain Robert Hugo Dunlap, Lieutenant Richard Miles McCool, President Truman, Sergeant Vernon McGarity, Lieutenant Frank Burke, and Master Sergeant Vito R. Bertoldo. From the scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, Vol. 1.

President Harry S. Truman (center of the window) stands in a window at City Hall in New York City, with Mayor Fiorello La Guardia (left of President Truman) while serenaded by a choir of Midshipmen. The plaque below him commemorates the fact that George Washington had stood near that spot while the Declaration of Independence was read to the Continental Army. President Truman is in New York to attend Navy Day. All others are unidentified. From the scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, Vol. 1.

The ship's company and guests mass on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt in New York Harbor on Navy Day. From the scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, Vol. 1.

President Harry S. Truman (center) is piped aboard the USS Missouri on Navy Day in New York Harbor. Behind him are, from left to right, Vice Admiral Herbert F. Leary, New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, and Admiral William D. Leahy (partly obscured). The sailors in the foreground are unidentified. From the scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, Vol. 1.

The USS Enterprise enters the Miraflores Lock in the Panama Canal while on her way to the East Coast to participate in Navy Day Ceremonies. From the scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, Vol. 1.

An unidentified man dressed as a clergyman during a ceremony held to mark the USS Missouri crossing the equator. The ceremony took place en route from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Norfolk, Virginia during President Harry S. Truman's visit to Brazil. All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman reviews assembled unidentified sailors on board the USS Missouri as he returns to the United States from Brazil. The naval officer standing next to President Truman is Captain Robert Dennison, the Commanding Officer of the USS Missouri.

A group of unidentified sailors poses with the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil during President Harry S. Truman's visit to Brazil.