Sailors

Standing at the rail on board the S.S. President Cleveland, Mrs. Bess Truman, former President Harry S. Truman, and daughter Margaret, pose for news photographers as they return to San Francisco, California, from a month's vacation in Hawaii. On Margaret's right is Captain Hobart J. Ehman, skipper of the liner. (Similar to 2002-463, 464, and 465.) (Original negative included.) From: Bayard C. Rucker.

Senator and Vice-Presidential nominee Harry S. Truman chats with friends at the Coronado Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri, at a dinner given by the Knights of the Cauliflower Ear, an organization of sports fans, for Harry S. Truman and Robert E. Hannegan, chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Front row, left to right are: Cecil Engel, Mr. Truman, an unidentified serviceman, and Bernard Dickmann. From: David Meyer (nephew of Cecil Engel).

A boat of sailors drives toward the U.S.S. Missouri, in preparation for boarding.

Vice-President Harry S. Truman (left), guest-of-honor at the 4th Anniversary of the USO in Washington, D.C. Next to Vice-President Truman are (left to right), Jane Lingo, Margaret Truman, and Bess Truman. They are watching a sailor, Jake Tynan, cut a celebratory cake. Between Bess and Jake Tynan is Mrs. W.D. Jara (background). Both were assigned to the Transportation Division of the Bureau of Supply and Accounts for the Navy. The others are unidentified. The photo is a print of a scanned image. From: Mrs. W.D. Jara.

President Harry S. Truman, visiting aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, converses with Navy Lieutenant Ralph Ingram Sherman, USN (center), as he was introduced to the ship's personnel. The President was on board for an official state visit to Brazil. From: J. Carol Sherman McVicker.

Men coiling cable on the deck of an LSM prior to laying the cable underwater at Eniwetok Atoll.

Reflection of the blast of an atom bomb shows members of the crew aboard a Navy vessel watching the tests at the instant of detonation. Some crew members shield their eyes and turn their backs from the blast. Others, wearing glasses, face the blast.

President Harry S. Truman (far left) is shown at attention aboard a ship with Admiral Robert L. Dennison (left of President Truman).

President Harry S. Truman (center of the window) stands in a window at City Hall 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.

The aircraft carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt in New York Harbor on Navy Day.