Soldiers

Two unknown United States soldiers stationed in post-war Japan stand next to a military truck.

President Harry S. Truman is shown bestowing the Congressional Medal of Honor on Sergeant Ralph G. Neppel, 21, Glidden, Iowa. Sergeant Neppel is one of 28 soldiers who received this award in the East Room of the White House on this day. Sergeant Neppel lost his legs below the knee in action in Germany, December, 1944. This photo was submitted by the photographer to the third White House News Photographers Photo Contest and is titled "Nation's Highest Honor."

President Harry S. Truman, center, is shown in Washington, D.C., shaking hands with four men who he presented the Congressional Medal of Honor to at the White House. All these men received their Medals for their service in the Korean War. From left to right: Captain Raymond Harvey, Pasadena, California; Captain Lewis L. Millett, Haverhill, Massachusetts; President Truman; Sergeant Stanley T. Adams, Olathe, Kansas; Einar H. Ingman, Jr., Tomahawk, Wisconsin.

President Harry S. Truman stands with Korean War veterans after presenting each of them with the Congressional Medal of Honor in the Oval Office at the White House. From left to right: First Lieutenant Carl Dodd, Kenvir, Kentucky; President Truman; Sergeant John A. Pittman, Carrolton (Tullula), Mississippi; and Master Sergeant Ernest R. Kouma, Dwight, Nebraska. Others in the background are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (left) shakes hands and congratulates former United States Army Corporal Charles Farber of Altoona, Pennsylvania. Farber, pictured with his fiancée, Helen Baker, also of Altoona, Pennsylvania, is the once unknown Corporal "X" who saved the life of Medal of Honor winner Captain Raymond Harvey after Harvey had been critically wounded on the Korean battlefront.

President Harry S. Truman stands in the Oval Office at the White House after presenting three Korean War veterans with the Congressional Medal of Honor. From left to right: General Harry Vaughan; unidentified Army officer; Korean War Medal of Honor recipient Sergeant John A. Pittman, President Truman, Secretary of Defense George Marshall, and unidentified Army officer. Others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman stands with Korean War veterans after presenting each of them the Congressional Medal of Honor in the Oval Office at the White House. From left to right: Senator Earle Clements of Kentucky (partly obscured); Senator Hugh Butler of Nebraska; Governor Lawrence Wetherby of Kentucky; First Lieutenant Carl Dodd, Kenvir, Kentucky; President Truman; Sergeant John A. Pittman, Carrolton, Mississippi; Master Sergeant Ernest R. Kouma, Dwight, Nebraska; and Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall. Others in the background are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman, center, is shown awarding the Congressional Medal of Honor to one of the 28 recipients (left) who received the award in the East Room of the White House in front of family and dignitaries. The man standing behind the desk is Major General Harry Vaughan. The dignitaries seated in the front row on the right are (from right to left): Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal; Secretary of War Henry Stimson; unidentified man; General George C. Marshall; Fleet Admiral William Leahy; and General Henry "Hap" Arnold. A group of photographers are visible behind the President.

Colonel Cyril Hew Dalrymple Wild of the British military sits in the witness box at the War Ministry Building Courtroom in Tokyo, Japan. He was a War Crime Liaison Officer, who testified for the prosecution that Japan violated Siam's neutrality, also to the mistreatment of prisoners of war by the Japanese in a trial of twenty-seven ex-leaders of Japan. He was killed the next day in a plane crash on his way to Singapore.

Colonel Cyril Hew Dalrymple Wild of the British military sits in the witness box at the War Ministry Building Courtroom in Tokyo, Japan. He was a War Crime Liaison Officer, who testified for the prosecution that Japan violated Siam's neutrality, also to the mistreatment of prisoners of war by Japanese in trial of twenty-seven ex-leaders of Japan. He was killed the next day in plane crash on his way to Singapore.