U.S. Marine Corps

Official portrait of General Clifton B. Cates, Commandant of the Marine Corps.

President Harry S. Truman stands on the back of a train. A large crowd of unidentified people is present.

General Harry Vaughan (partially obscured), Clark Clifford, Admiral William Leahy, President Harry S. Truman and others stand at the rear of a train during Winston Churchill's visit to Fulton, Missouri where Churchill made his famous "Iron Curtain" speech.

President Harry S. Truman at the rear of a train during Winston Churchill's visit to Fulton, Missouri.

Marine infantrymen advance under cover of the amphibious and heavily armored landing craft as they approach a sham "enemy" concrete emplacement. This was taken at the Marine Corps Training School at Quantico, Virginia.

Naval pre-invasion bombardment, simulated by static demolitions, precedes the onslaught of the Marine amphibious invasion. Clouds of ominous smoke from the high explosives dissipate and conceal the "enemy" emplacements. This was taken at the Marine Corps Training School at Quantico, Virginia.

Bazooka men, highly specialized and exactingly trained assault men, prepare to send a rocket explosive shell screaming into an embrasure of the "enemy" concrete pillbox seen over the turret of the amphibious assault vehicle (upper right) in this photo, taken at the Marine Corps School at Quantico, Virginia.

Infantrymen stream out of the fantail of an armored landing vehicle and begin to quickly disperse during an assault on an "enemy" pill box at the Marine Corps School at Quantico, Virginia.

A fiery blossom of death, the napalm jellied gasoline mixture is an aerial hot-foot well calculated to make destruction complete. Exploding with a lumpish "whoompf", the bomb completely consumes an "enemy" target as shown in this photo, taken at the Marine Corps Training School at Quantico, Virginia.

Four Grumman F7F Tigercats begin to pull out of their dive after screaming in to attack their objective with simulated demolition bombs. A geyser of water and sand spouts skyward during the detonation. This was taken at the Marine Corps Training School at Quantico, Virginia.