Finletter, Thomas Knight, 1893-1980

General Wade H. Haislip (second from right) and his wife, Mrs. Haislip (foreground, left) talk with three Secretary of the Air Force Thomas Finletter (right) and another unidentified guest at the retirement reception and dinner held in General Haislip's honor at the Officers Club at Fort McNair.

General Wade H. Haislip (second from left) with Margaret (Mrs. Frank) Pace (left) and exchanges handshakes with Secretary of the Air Force Thomas Finletter (right) at the retirement reception held in his honor at the Officers Club at Fort McNair. The woman that Mrs. Pace is shaking hands with is unidentified.

Secretary of the Air Force Thomas K. Finletter (center foreground, left) arrives at the airport in Louisville, Kentucky, for Armed Forces Day. Also present is Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (in group on the right, wearing hat). All others are unidentified.

Secretary of the Air Force Thomas K. Finletter and Secretary of the Army Frank Pace, Jr. at the airport in Louisville, Kentucky for Armed Forces Day. From left to right: Secretary Finletter, Elvis Stahr (Special Assistant to Secretary Pace), John Kane (Press Aide to Secretary Pace), and Secretary Pace. All others are unidentified.

From left to right: Secretary of the Army Frank Pace, Deputy Secretary of Defense William Foster, Secretary of Defense Lovett, Secretary of the Navy Dan Kimball, and Secretary of the Air Force Thomas K. Finletter.

From left to right: Secretary of the Army Frank Pace, Deputy Secretary of Defense William Foster, Secretary of Defense Lovett, Secretary of the Navy Dan Kimball, Secretary of the Air Force Thomas K. Finletter, and Mr. Wyeth.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace meets with members of the Armed Forces Policy Council. First row, left to right: Secretary of the Navy Dan Kimball, Deputy Secretary of Defense William C. Foster, Secretary of Defense Robert A. Lovett, Secretary Pace, and Secretary of the Air Force Thomas K. Finletter. Back row left to right: Admiral William M. Fechteler, General L. C. Shepherd, Jr., General Omar Bradley, General J. Lawton Collins, General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, and Colonel G. V. Underwood, Jr.

Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson (second from right) administers the oath of office as Secretary of the Air Force to Thomas K. Finletter.  Officials in attendance are, L to R: W. Stuart Symington, former Secretary of the Air Force; Secretary of State Dean Acheson; and General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Chief of Staff, USAF.