Airplanes

This is half of a stereo slide showing an airplane at an airport. An airplane staircase is docked to the plane. Several people are standing on the tarmac, one appears to be in a foreign military uniform. A logo on the window next to the staircase says "Royal Air Mail."

This is half of a stereo slide showing a half exposed frame of a scene from an airport. A man in a foreign military uniform stands for a photo. A commercial airliner is behind him.

This is half of a stereo slide showing Averell Harriman (wearing a light gray suit and light tan hat) as he arrives at an airport. He is walking towards the camera. He is being followed by foreign military or police as they walk away from an airplane in the background. All others are unidentified.

This is half of a stereo slide that is double exposed, showing an airport scene of what appears to be a man boarding a plane via the airplane ladder. The other exposure is a view of the plane's door. All people are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman is shown ready to enter the presidential airplane, "Independence", to depart from Lawson Air Force Base for Eglin Air Force Base, Florida after a one-day tour of Fort Benning, Georgia. Photograph is part of a scrapbook identified as "The Infantry Center, Fort Benning, Ga., 21 April 1950. Visit of Harry S. Truman, President of the United States."

President Harry S. Truman is in view in the center of the photograph, shown arriving at Lawson Air Force Base, Georgia. Others in view include: Louis Johnson, Secretary of Defense, second from the right; John Snyder, Secretary of the Treasury, directly behind Truman; and General Harry H. Vaughn in uniform behind Truman to the left. Labor Secretary Maurice Tobin is standing behind Snyder. Also visible is a partial view of the presidential airplane, "The Independence." Photograph is part of a scrapbook identified as "The Infantry Center, Fort Benning, Ga., 21 April 1950. Visit of Harry S.

Left to right: unidentified, Halbert L. Dunn, Stuart A. Rice, unidentified man standing by an airplane in Acapulco during Inter-American Statistics Institute Meetings in Mexico.

John F. Melby disembarking the plane in the Philippines during the Melby Erskine Mission.

A sea plane takes off from the waters of Key West watched by two boats near the Sea Plane Base, Key West, Florida. From: Naval Photo Center, sent to the Truman Library by the National Archives. Original 4x5 negative.

Former President Harry S. Truman with Retired Admiral Chester Nimitz (center) and Ralph J. Bunche (right) in San Francisco, California for the 10th Anniversary commemorative session of the United Nations. They are standing under an airplane. Photograph is signed by Admiral Nimitz and Doctor Bunche. Message reads: "To Harry S. Truman - with warm and affectionate regards" (apparently written by Admiral Nimitz). Same as 77-2752 From the album "Official Photographs Missouri State Highway Commission, Jefferson City, Missouri."