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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.

President Harry S. Truman after his return from the Wake Island Conference with General Douglas MacArthur. From left to right: Special Assistant W. Averill Harriman, Defense Secretary George C. Marshall, President Truman, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Ambassador Philip Jessup, Treasury Secretary John Snyder, Army Secretary Frank Pace and General Omar Bradley.

Brigadier General Paul H. Griffith, personal assistant to Under Secretary of War Louis Johnson and, as a member of the American Technical Mission to India, an Assistant to Mr. Johnson when he was the personal representative of the President in the Middle East, 1942. Served as Assistant Secretary of Defense, 1949-50.

Major General Kenner F. Hertford, career officer, U.S. Army, 1923-55. Military Advisor, Conference Chapultepec, Mexico and U.N. Conference, San Francisco, 1945; National War College, 1946-47; Military Staff Committee, United Nations Staff, 1947; Deputy Commander, Armed Forces Special Weapons Project, Sandia Base, New Mexico, 1948-52; Research and Development Division in Army General Staff, 1952.

Portrait of Col. Laurence E. Bunker. He was interviewed for an oral history. Mr. Bunker was the Chief Aide to General Douglas MacArthur from April, 1946 to November, 1952.

President Harry S. Truman (right) presenting the U. S. Medal of Merit to John J. Muccio (center), United States Ambassador to the Republic of Korea. General Douglas MacArthur is on the left.

General Frank Lowe, Lieutenant Colonel Roise, Captain Hume, and Marines of the Second Battalion, Fifth Marine Regiment talk over the taking of Kimpo, South Korea. Lt. Colonel Roise was the Commanding Officer of the Second Battalion, Fifth Regiment.

General Frank Lowe looks over anti-aircraft guns placed by the enemy in Pyongyang, North Korea. These weapons were near a monument commemorating the North Korean liberation by the Soviet Union in 1945.

General Walton Walker and General Douglas MacArthur at the Pyongyang, Korea air field.