U.S. Marine Corps

Exploding in a whirl, four static demolition charges simulating bombardment by the four Grumman F7F Tigercats veering out of the photo (upper left), conceal the hypothetical targets in the middle foreground.

A Sherman tank scores a direct hit on a concrete bunker while supporting infantrymen advance by fire and movement under cover of the steel giant during training at the Marine Corps School in Quantico, Virginia.

A light machine gun crew (left foreground) covers the assault on a pill box by a Marine fireteam seen through the lingering smoke of a white phosphorous grenade during training at the Marine Corps School in Quantico, Virginia.

Small identification photo of Lieutenant Colonel James E. Webb, United States Marine Corps.

Inaugural parade float from Lamar, Missouri, birth place of President Harry S. Truman. Original photograph is from a photo album of 1949 inaugural events.

President Harry S. Truman and staff members on the rear platform of the train taking them to Fulton, Missouri with Winston Churchill, where Churchill gave his famous "Iron Curtain" speech. From left to right: Harry Vaughan, Clark Clifford, President Truman, Charles Ross (partly obscured behind Truman), Wallace Graham, and an unidentified man.

President Harry S. Truman and Prime Minister Winston Churchill in car in parade in Jefferson City, Missouri. It was on this day that Churchill made his famous "Iron Curtain" speech at Westminster College in Fulton. Secret Service men are on the running boards of the car.

Mrs. Dean Acheson is greeted upon arrival in Kaneohe for the ANZUS Council Meeting. She is garlanded with leis. From: Dean Acheson Papers.

Secretary of State Dean Acheson is greeted by an individual not identified during the ANZUS Council meeting in Kaneohe, Hawaii. This meeting is on the first anniversary of the signing of the treaty with Australia and New Zealand. From: Dean Acheson Papers.

Shown is the Officer's Club, official headquarters for the ANZUS Council being held at Kaneohe, Hawaii.