U.S. Army

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace meets with some of his civilian aides the Presidio Officer's Mess in San Francisco, California. Left to right: David Deane, Jr. Aide for Idaho; Stephen E. Chadwick, Aide for Washington; Edmond G. Toomey, Aide for Montana; George A.D. Kerr, Aide for Oregon; Lieutenant General Joseph Swing, Commanding General, Sixth Army; Secretary Pace; Philip J. Fitzgerald, Aide for the Sixth Army; Eugene D. Bennett, Aide for Northern California; Walter W. Knorpp, Aide for Arizona; William C. McDuffie, Aide for Southern California; and Robert A. Cavanaugh, Aide for Nevada.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (right) greets unidentified troops debarking from a transport at Fort Mason, California.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (foreground, second from left) and Lieutenant General Alexander Bolling (foreground, left) salute the colors during the Secretary's visit to Fort McPherson, Georgia. All others are unidentified.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace and his party inspect the shell plant at Riverbank, California. From left to right: President of the Norris Thermador Corporation K.T. Norris, Secretary of the Army Frank Pace, and Plant Superintendent Earl Chamberlin.

Men of "C" Battery, Ninth Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion are running to gun positions during a practice gun drill at Fort Cronkhite, California. All are unidentified.

Artillery pieces fire a 19-gun salute upon the arrival of Secretary of the Army Frank Pace at Fort McPherson, Georgia. The artillery unit was a detachment from Fort Benning.

C. G. Taylor (left) drives Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (right) in a armored personnel carrier at the Food Machinery and Chemical Corporation in San Jose, California.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (standing, right) visiting children in the nursery at the Overseas Processing Office at Fort Mason, California. The Army officer on the left is unidentified.

Music of the 14th Army Women's Army Corps band is played while Colonel Westray B. Leslie (Ret) (foreground, wearing corsage) enters the auditorium at Fort McClellan, Alabama. Others in the background are unidentified.

From left to right, Colonel Irene Galloway, Fourth WAC director; Colonel Mary Hallaren (Ret) Third WAC director; Colonel Westray B. Leslie (Ret), Second WAC director; Colonel Mary Louise Milligan Rasmuson WAC director and Major Mildred Bailey, Commanding Officer WAC, Detachment, Fort Myer, Virginia are attending a reception honoring the twentieth anniversary of the Women's Army Corps. The reception was held at Patton Hall, Fort Myer, Virginia.