Senator Harry S. Truman and Vice Admiral Herbert Leary Shake Hands
Senator Harry S. Truman (left) and Vice Admiral Herbert F. Leary (right) shaking hands at the launching of the USS Missouri at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York.
Leary, Herbert F., 1885-1957
President Harry S. Truman Boards the USS Missouri
President Harry S. Truman (center) is piped aboard the USS Missouri on Navy Day in New York Harbor. Behind him are, from left to right, Vice Admiral Herbert F. Leary, New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, and Admiral William D. Leahy (partly obscured). The sailors in the foreground are unidentified. From the scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, Vol. 1.