Thanksgiving Day

The dining room of the Little White House in Key West, Florida, decorated for Thanksgiving. President Harry S. Truman and his family spent Thanksgiving vacation there in 1951.

Secretary of the U.S. Navy Francis P. Matthews is shown while on a visit to the Yokosuka Naval Facilities in Japan. He is seen in the bluejacket or enlisted men's Mess Hall at the Navy's Fleet Activities Command, Yokosuka, Japan. Secretary Matthews is addressing the enlisted assembly before joining them for Turkey dinner. Secretary Matthews' trip took place November 12 - November 30, 1950.

Margaret Pace (left) stands in line with a tray for food during a Thanksgiving meal in Leghorn, Italy. The others pictured are unidentified. From the album United States Forces in Austria, Logistical Command.

Secretary of Army Frank Pace (center) carries a tray and picks out food for a Thanksgiving meal in Leghorn, Italy. The rest of the people pictured are unidentified. From the album, United Forces in Austria, Logistical Command.

Margaret Pace stands with a tray of food in a hallway in Leghorn, Italy, during Thanksgiving Day celebrations. Behind her is an unidentified man. From the album, United Forces in Austria, Logistical Command.

Secretary of Army Frank Pace (far side of the table, second from right) eats with a group of unidentified soldiers and United States Army officers for a Thanksgiving meal in Leghorn, Italy. From the album, United States Forces in Austria, Logistical Command.

Margaret Pace (foreground left) kisses an unidentified woman (center right) on the cheek in Leghorn, Italy. Secretary of Army Frank Pace is in the background second from the left. Others are unidentified. From the album, United States Forces in Austria, Logistical Command.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace, Jr. (seated, left) spent Thanksgiving Day in Leghorn, Italy at the Headquarters of the 7656 Logistical Command, the main supply base of the United States forces in Austria. Here Secretary Pace autographs a menu for Sergeant First Class Francis Price (standing) from Mt. Pleasantville, New Jersey. To Secretary Pace's right is Corporal Cy J. Zenisek of Cleveland, Ohio.

Colonel Westray Battle Boyce (second from left) is sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner in the mess hall with members of the WAC Detachment in Frankfurt, Germany. Also present are Mrs. Genevieve Forbes Herrick, Member of the National Civilian Advisory Committee on the WACs (far right, back to camera) and Major Ruby E. Herman, Deputy WAC Staff Director for the European theater (second from right, back to camera). All others are unidentified.

A group of unidentified WACs play games with some of the German orphans they hosted for Thanksgiving Day dinner at their mess hall in Frankfurt, Germany.