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Portrait of Captain Harry S. Truman, taken from his identity card for the American Expeditionary Forces. His rank is Captain, 129 Field Artillery. Captain Truman is not wearing glasses in this straight frontal, unsmiling portrait.

Army-Navy Union members at the White House, presenting a gold life membership plaque to President Harry S. Truman (seated). All are unidentified.

A South Korean infantry officer points out cover positions to his patrol working on the Korean battle front.

Everyone stands at attention at a flag-raising (Flag of Liberation) ceremony in Berlin, Germany. From left to right, General Dwight Eisenhower, General George Patton, and President Harry S. Truman. President Truman is in Germany to attend the Potsdam Conference. Standing behind President Truman is Captain James Vardaman, Truman's Naval Aide. All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman and General Douglas MacArthur at President Truman's arrival at the Wake Island Conference.

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.