President Truman with Byrnes and Smith
President Harry S. Truman (left) with Secretary of State James F. Byrnes (center) and General Walter Bedell Smith (right), the newly appointed Ambassador to the Soviet Union.
President Harry S. Truman (front left) boarding the Presidential Plane with General Harry Vaughan (back right) and an unidentified man, while an unidentified soldier stands guard. President Truman was headed to Key West and a brief Florida vacation.
Distance view of President Harry S. Truman attending the burial of twenty soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery. These twenty were the first war dead now returned to be buried in the United States. The three chaplains leading the funeral services are: Major Henry Tavel; Colonel Patrick J. Ryan; and Captain J.F. Hughes.