Pace, Frank, 1912-1988

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (standing, right) inspects new jet-powered Helicopter XH-26. Test pilot Lou Hartwig prepares to demonstrate the new helicopter while Congressman Cecil R. King (standing, left) looks on.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (foreground, left) is greeted upon his arrival at U.S. Naval Terminal at Capodichino Airport in Naples, Italy by Admiral Robert B. Carney, United States Navy, Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe (foreground, second from left). All others are unidentified.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (center, wearing hat, with hand extended) talks to a crowd at an airport while visiting the Riverbank Ordnance Plant in California.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (right) talks with Italian Minister Defense Randolfo Pacciardi (left).

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 the Army Frank Pace (center) kneels beside a foxhole and discusses bazooka with Private First Class Harold Stewart and Private First Class Andrew Ammons in an exercise by the First Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment at Grafenwhor, Germany. Watching is Fifth Corps Commander General John E. Dahlquist.

Secretary Pace waves good-bye to Admiral Carney and Headquarters, Allied Forces Southern Europe staff members just before taking off in his Military Air Transport Service Special Air Mission plane, following his visit with the U.S. Admiral in Rome, Italy.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (in center group, on right) gives a press conference for reporters following his conference with Italian Minister Randolfo Pacciardi at Ischia, Italy. Captain C.G. Duffy United States Navy, Public Information Officer of Headquarters, Allied Forces, Southern Europe (HAFSE), and Major General James M. Gavin, United States Army, HAFSE Chief of Staff, attended the brief interview as did General Efisio Marras, Italian Chief of the General Staff. All others are unidentified.

Following his arrival in Naples, Italy, Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (foreground, left, in civilian suit) inspects the Italian Air Force Honor Guard at the Capodichino Airport. With him is Admiral Robert Carney (right). Secretary Pace inspected the troops before proceeding to the port where he boarded a boat for the Island of Ischia to confer with Italian Defense Minister Randolfo Pacciardi. All others are unidentified.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace presents Mrs. Anna Rosenberg, Assistant Secretary of Defense, the scroll for Appreciation for Services rendered.