Parks, Lewis S. (Lewis Smith), 1902-1982

Marines are undergoing inspection during a ceremony for changing of commanding officers aboard the USS Manchester. Captain Lewis Parks (middle row, third from left) hands over duty to Captain Laurence Frost (middle row, second from left). All others are unidentified.

Sailors are inspected during a ceremony for changing of commanding officers aboard the USS Manchester. Captain Lewis Parks (center, right) hands over duty to Captain Laurence Frost (center foreground, left). All others are unidentified.

Captain Lewis S. Parks (third from right) is at a dining table with five unknown guests.

Rear Admiral Lewis S. Parks (second from left) views part of Navy "Victory at Sea" exhibit at concourse in the Pentagon. Others are unidentified.

Captain Lewis S. Parks and Zelda Parks are disembarking from a ship.

A troupe of Hollywood actors and actresses performed a show for crew members of the USS Manchester upon their arrival to Long Beach, California after being in the Korean War Zone for nearly a year. Seated in the first row are Virginia Field (left), Joyce Mackenzie (second from left), Monica Lewis (third from right), and Dorothy Lamour (second from right). Standing in the background, second from right is Captain Lewis Parks, commander of the USS Manchester. Others are unidentified.

Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson announces the Power for Peace Photographic exhibit official open by cutting a satin ribbon. He was accompanied by (left to right) Secretary of the Navy Robert B. Anderson; Rear Admiral Lewis S. Parks, Navy Chief of Information; General Nathan Twining, Air Force Chief of Staff; Secretary of the Air Force Harold E. Talbott; General of the Army Omar Bradley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (mostly obscured); Secretary of the Army Robert T. Stevens; and General John Hull, Vice Chief of Staff, Army.

Captain Lewis S. Parks, left, talks with an unknown man during an event.

Captain Laurence Frost (left) stands at the microphone during the change of commanding officer's ceremony next to Captain Lewis S. Parks (right) aboard the USS Manchester. All others are unidentified.

Captain Lewis S. Parks (front row, left), wearing his naval uniform, poses with a group of men and women in a photograph. All others are unidentified.