Soldiers

President Harry S. Truman reviews troops in Los Angeles. He is on his Western Trip.

President Harry S. Truman inspects troops in Los Angeles, California, during his western trip.

Beatrice (Mrs. George S.) Patton (left) and George S. Patton IV (right) leave the Cathedral after Memorial Services for General George S. Patton. From the scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, Vol 2.

A delegation of four amputees (all unidentified) representing those at Thomas M. England Hospital in Atlantic City, New Jersey visit with Major General Harry Vaughan (seated, center), President Harry S. Truman's Military Aide. They are visiting with General Vaughan at the White House to protest the closing of the Army's largest amputation center. 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.

Captain Frank Welch (left) and Margaret Truman (right) attend the opening night at the Metropolitan Opera House. From the scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, Vol. 1.

President Harry S. Truman (left) autographs a baseball for Private First Class Paul E. Davis (right), the first American soldier in Tokyo, Japan. Davis caught the baseball at the World Series. Also pictured is the newly elected Commander-in-Chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Joseph M. Stack (center). From the scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, Vol. 1.

President Harry S. Truman (right) awards the Congressional Medal of Honor to Corporal Desmond Doss (left), the first Conscientious Objector to receive a Medal of Honor, on the White House lawn. Others in the background are unidentified. From the scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, Vol. 1.

Fifteen members of the Army Ground Forces stand on the White House lawn after being presented the Congressional Medal of Honor by President Harry S. Truman (not pictured). From left to right: Sergeant Christos H. Karaberis, Sergeant Freeman Horner, Corporal Desmond T. Doss, Corporal Clarence B. Craft, Captain James M. Burt, Corporal Melvin E. Biddle, Corporal Edward A. Bennett, Corporal Thomas E. Atkins, Private First Class William A. Soderman, Second Lieutenant Edward A. Silk, Sergeant Cleto Rodriguez, Sergeant Nicholas Oresko, Sergeant Dexter J. Kerstetter, and Sergeant Thomas J. Kelly.

Color photo of an unidentified American military man in Chungking somehow affiliated with Edwin Locke, Jr.'s third mission to China.