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Refugees in Korea

A long stream of refugees moves along a road leading south after receiving evacuation orders from the South Korean army. The South Korean forces were reported making small gains in a counter attack near the fallen city of Pohang.

President Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin at Potsdam

Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin meeting at Potsdam. From left to right, row 1 : Joseph Stalin, Harry S. Truman, Soviet Ambassador Andrei Gromyko, Secretary of State James Byrnes, and Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov. Second row: General Harry Vaughan, interpreter Charles Bohlen, interpreter V. N. Pavlov (mostly obscured by Truman), Captain James K. Vardaman, and Charles Ross (partially obscured).

Portrait of Marx Leva

Marx Leva, counsel to the fiscal director of the Navy, 1946; Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Navy, 1947; Special Assistant and General Counsel to the Secretary of Defense, 1947-49; and Assistant Secretary of Defense, 1949-51.

World War II soldiers with captured Nazi flag

Co. brought to this country to tell civilians about the German counter offensive in the Ardennes, and well qualified to do the job, the group shown above, holding a captured Nazi Swastika, will tour the Sixth Service Command, making talks to war workers urging them to increase the output of vital war supplies. Left to right, they are: Sgt. Frederick R. Wheeler, Charleston, S.C.; Sgt. Hugh D. Thompson, Lufkin, Texas; Sgt. Samuel B. Hendrix, Claxton, Ga., 1st Lieut. Walter J. McDowell, Hackensack., N.J.; Capt. James H., Cruickshank, Elizabeth, N.J.; Sgt. James E.