Truman, Louis W. (Louis Watson), 1908-2004

Captain Calvin R. Claypoole (center), Commanding Officer Lima-Troop, points out a section of the Czechoslovakian border to Lieutenant General Louis W. Truman (left) during is visit to the Weiden, Germany border camp. Colonel Carlton Preer Jr., Commanding Officer 2nd A/C (right) looks on.

Captain Calvin R. Claypoole (right), Commanding Officer Lima Troop, 3rd Squadron, 2nd A/C, briefs Lieutenant General Louis W. Truman (left), Commanding General VII Corps, during the General's visit to the 2nd A/C border camp at Weiden, Germany.

Sergeant Charles N. Angel, Jr., Second Armed Cavalry, explains a display at Weiden, Germany, to Lieutenant General Louis W. Truman. Captain Calvin R. Claypoole, Commander Lima-Troop and Colonel Carlton Preer, Jr., Commanding Officer 2nd A/C look on. Others in the background are unidentified.

Sergeant Richard N. Fossum, (right, front) Assistant Scout Section Leader Lima-Troop, explains a map problem to Captain Calvin R. Claypoole (left, front) while Lieutenant General Louis W. Truman (background, right) looks on. Other soldiers are unidentified. Lieutenant General Truman was visiting the Weiden, Germany border camp.

During his visit to the Hohenfels German Training Area 18, Lieutenant General Louis W. Truman (left) and Major General John F. Franklin, Jr. (third from right, partly obscured), Commanding General 4th Armed Division, discuss a German situation map with German Lieutenant General Leo Hepp (second from right). Brigadier General Johann Haertel, Commanding General 11th Panzer, II German Corps (right) was also present. Unidentified soldiers in the background look on.

Lieutenant General Louis W. Truman (right) talks with Brigadier General Johann Haertel, Commanding General 11th Panzer, II German Corps (center) during General Truman's visit to the Hohenfels German Training Area 18. Grenadier Norbert Bartzok (left), German Army looks on.

Lieutenant General Louis W. Truman (right) in civilian attire talks with another unidentified gentlemen (left) during the opening for the Kelley Barracks Kiddie Nursery in Stuttgart, Germany.

(L-R) Mrs. Margaret Stevenson Truman greets Brigadier General George M. Jones while her husband, Lieutenant General Louis W. Truman shakes the hand of Major General William A. Cunningham at a reception in the honor of the Trumans. The reception was held as Lieutenant General Truman assumed command of the Seventh Army Corps in Germany.

Lieutenant General Louis W. Truman (right) and his wife Mrs. Margaret Stevenson Truman (left) are shown here during the Assumption of Command Ceremony in Stutt-Moehringen, Germany. General Truman assumed command of the United States 7th Army Corps.

Lieutenant General Louis W. Truman in (center right, in background with unidentified attendant) reviews the troops and equipment of the 7th Army Corps during the Assumption of Command ceremony in Stutt-Moehringen, German. Included among the troops he is reviewing are African-American soldiers. All others are unidentified.