Airplanes

Roy Scott (left), Mayor of Fayetteville, Arkansas, a President Harry S. Truman lookalike, poses in front of a Central Airlines plane, named "Miss Fayetteville," with two unidentified men prior to a pre-inaugural flight to St. Louis. From: Central Airlines, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Texas

Former President Harry S. Truman (third from the left) shakes hands with an unidentified man as he stands in front of an airplane after his arrival in Fort Wayne, Indiana, for a political rally. Alexander Campbell is on Truman's left. The others are unidentified. Mr. Truman is in Fort Wayne to attend a rally for Vance Hartke, the Democratic Senatorial candidate.

With the "Sacred Cow" in the background, Secretary of State George C. Marshall (left) and Warren Austin (right), U.S. Representative to the United Nations, are greeted by Brazilian Minister Raul Fernandes (center). They are in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to attend the Pan-American Conference of Foreign Ministers and the Inter-American Defense Conference. Please credit: "Maj. Jerome Eichholz, U.S. Air Force, courtesy Harry S. Truman Library."

Disembarking from a plane are (left to right) Senator Arthur Vandenburg, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Warren Austin, U.S. Representative to the United Nations; and George Marshall, Secretary of State, who flew to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on the presidential plane the "Sacred Cow" to attend the Pan American Conference of Foreign Ministers and the Inter-American Defense Conference. Shaking hands with Senator Vandenburg is United States Ambassador to Brazil William Pawley, and Lt. Col. Austin is on his Pawley's left, shaking Warren Austin's hand. Please credit: "Maj.

Lt. Col. A. Robert Ginsburgh, Aide to the Under Secretary of War, and a group of Army officers and enlisted men from Washington, D. C., and March Field, visit Consolidated Aircraft Plants on March 24, 1942. This photo shows Col. Ginsburgh at the podium addressing Consolidated employees, with Army officers sitting behind him. A banner stating "Keep our wings above the enemy" is affixed to the speaker's podium.

Lt. Col. A. Robert Ginsburgh stands at the podium and addresses a crowd of workers at Vega Airplane Plant Number 1, Los Angeles, California, as part of an inspection tour of airplane factories in southern California by Brig. General Ord Ryan and a group of Air Corps officers from March Field, Riverside, California, and Albuquerque, New Mexico.

From left to right: Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, President Harry S. Truman, and Secretary of State Dean Acheson. They are present to send off General Eisenhower as he departs for Europe to survey his Atlantic Pact forces. See also 77-1541. From: Arthur Marasco.

Princess Elizabeth of England and her Prince Consort, Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, arrive at MATS Terminal, Washington National Airport. From left to right are: U.S. State Department Protocol Chief John F. Simmons, President Harry S. Truman, Princess Elizabeth, Prince Philip, Mrs. Bess Wallace Truman, and Margaret Truman. (See 86-141.) From: Arthur Marasco, 667 East Street, Lenox, MA 01240

Mexico's President, Miguel Aleman, is shown arriving in Washington, D.C.

The welcoming ceremony for Mexican President Miguel Aleman when he visited Washington, D.C.