Airmen

Crew of C-54 standing on plane stairs. From top to bottom, left to right: Captain A.F. Story, pilot; Captain Paul W. Meinar, pilot; Sergeant Joseph W. Pinto, engineer; Sergeant Joseph H Walsh, radio operator; Lieutenant Charles A. Neyhart, co-pilot; Captain Harold N. Learned, navigator; Sergeant William G. Ledger, flight clerk; and Sergeant Guido J. Costello, engineer. (They brought Ralph K. Davies and the petroleum group to Europe.)

The pilots and their wives. Major Ward Cory, the Chief Pilot (back row, at right) and Major John Brown, the Assistant Chief Pilot (back row, center) are pictured. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Major Ward Cory; Chief Pilot. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Major John Brown, the Assistant Chief Pilot pictured. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

General George F. Schulgen (at left)and pilot who flew him from Vienna, Austria to Tullin Airport in a Piper Cub. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Head-and-shoulders photo of Col. Francis W. Williams, pilot, standing in the doorway of the presidential plane, The Independence.

Col. Francis W. Williams, pilot of the President's official airplane, The Independence, seated at his desk. Same as 77-3339 except not autographed.

Jawaharlal Nehru (right), Prime Minister of India, during his visit to the United States, converses with Col. Francis W. Williams (left), pilot of the President's Plane, The Independence, and his wife, Irene.

Head-and-shoulders portrait of Francis W. Williams in uniform, pilot of the President's plane The Independence.

Before boarding his plane at the National Airport in Washington, President Harry S. Truman has a hearty handshake for Col. Henry Myers (left), his former pilot, and Lt. Col. Francis W. Williams (right) who was at the controls of the Sacred Cow for the first time with the President aboard when the Chief Executive took off for a two-week Caribbean and Florida vacation. Col. Myers, who went along as far as Key West, has been "breaking in" his successor. From: Papers of Francis W. Williams.