Soldiers

Soviet tommy gunner on guard in Pyongyang. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

The Mess Sergeant on Reparations tour. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Photograph of a column of soldiers in World War I uniforms, marching alongside a railroad track. The photograph was found between pages 158 and 159 in The Pandex, a law school yearbook for 1924. From: General - K.C. School of Law - Yearbook 1924

Celebration at Lincoln Memorial with a line of members of the military lining the steps. People unidentified. The celebration is in commemoration of the 140th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth.

West Point cadets marching past the reviewing stand of President Harry S. Truman's Inaugural Parade.

An armored vehicle driven by soldiers is passing in front of the viewing stand at President Harry S. Truman's inaugural parade. President Truman is seated behind the center stripe of the bunting on the front of the stand. Vice-President Alben Barkley is on the right behind the bunting. All others unidentified.

A lace-covered table is set with a tea service and china for a buffet lunch at a party, including cards and music, sponsored by the American Newspaper Women's Club, Washington, D.C., for enlisted men as part of "Operation Homefront." This is one of a series of parties to be held every Sunday afternoon. (See also 2009-1631.) From: Truman Home.

Among the ruins of Cheppy and on a nearby hillside, a company of American infantrymen pitch their "shelter-half tents" for the night on their way to the Argonne front. In the foreground, horses drink their fill from a river. From: Lillian R. Craig, Scotland County Public Library, Memphis, Missouri.

Unidentified servicemen and a woman play cards at the American Newspaper Women's Club in Washington, D.C., at a buffet given by the Club for enlisted men as part of "Operation Homefront." The party is one of a series sponsored by the Club to take place every Sunday afternoon. From: Truman Home.

Photograph of those present at the summer Reserve encampment at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Major Harry S. Truman (379th Field Artillery) is third from the right in the last row. A menu/program for the annual dinner of the 102nd Division held on July 27, 1923, lists the guests present (including Truman) by unit and is in the Museum Collection (No. 79-22-1). From: Colonel P. A. Fredericksen, American Legion Post #285, Hamilton, Mo. 64644.