Veterans

President Harry S. Truman (front, standing with veteran) decorating a soldier with the Medal of Honor during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, as other recipients and photographers look on. First Lieutenant Cecil H. Bolton, seated second from left, front row.

President Harry S. Truman decorating a soldier during a Medal of Honor presentation ceremony in the East Room of the White House, as other recipients and guests look on. In the background, standing directly in front of the candelabra, is Press Secretary Charles Ross. Standing in front of the flag, leaning over the table of medals is Major General Harry Vaughan.

President Harry S. Truman (front, standing with veteran) decorating a soldier with the Medal of Honor during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, as other recipients and photographers look on. First Lieutenant Cecil H. Bolton is seated second from left, front row. Major General Harry Vaughan is standing in front of the flag with the remaining medals.

President Harry S. Truman (standing, center) posing with some of the twenty-eight recipients of the Medal of Honor who were decorated at a ceremony in the East Room of the White House.

President Harry S. Truman shakes the hand of a Medal of Honor recipient in a wheelchair while other recipients and guests look on. First Lieutenant Cecil H. Bolton is seated second from left, front row.

President Harry S. Truman (standing in front with a veteran) decorating one of twenty-eight servicemen who received Medals of Honor in a ceremony in the East Room of the White House. First Lieutenant Cecil H. Bolton is seated far left, front row. Behind President Truman at the table with the medals is Major General Harry Vaughan.

General Harry Vaughan (second from the left) at the opening night of the National Capital's Sesquicentennial historic drama "Faith of Our Fathers." Vaughan received a hand-illuminated scroll on behalf of the Veterans of Foreign Wars commemorating the service of the veterans organization presented by Lawrence B. Slater, Assistant General Manager of the National Capital Sesquicentennial Commission. Also present George F. McWilliams, National Commander of the Veterans of Foreign War Clyde A. Lewis, and Omar B. Ketchum, Legislative Director of the VFW. From: Harry H. Vaughan.

From left to right, Roberta (Mrs. Arleigh) Burke, Admiral Arleigh Burke, Colonel Rufus Burrus, an unidentified Lieutenant Commander, and Commander Richardson in the lobby of the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, Missouri. Same as 2000-18, without the autograph.

Overview of the breakfast for President Harry S. Truman by his comrades from Battery D at the Mayflower Hotel on Inauguration morning. President Truman is at back table. Original photograph is filed in the oversize file. From an album of Lorain H. Cunningham, who served in the 129th Field Artillery and was a friend of Harry S. Truman.

Former President Harry S. Truman (right) walks alongside an unidentified Legionnaire at the World War I Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri.