Armed forces officers

Portrait of the 35th Division Association President Charles I. Martin. Donor: Mrs. Ralph Truman.

A portrait of 35th Division Association President Edmund J. McMahon. Donor: Mrs. Ralph Truman.

Portrait of Civil War General Samuel Ryan Curtis. Donor: Milton F. Perry.

Portrait of General Ralph Truman, cousin of President Harry S. Truman.

This is a photograph of an engraving of Joseph O. Shelby, by A. H. Ritchie. He became a brigadier general in the Confederate Army. From: Milton Perry.

Major General Paul W. Baade (left) shows General George S. Patton (right) a souvenir cane inscribed with the names of liberated French towns. From: Milton F. Perry

This scene includes a partial view of what appears to be a Gray Line sightseeing bus filled with U.S. Navy personnel taken during an inspection tour visit of Secretary of the Navy Francis P. Matthews to the U.S. Naval Shipyard at San Francisco, California. Secretary Matthews is seated in civilian clothes directly behind the bus driver. Other Navy officers in view are not identified.

Overall banquet view of the head table and those attending the Military Chaplain's Association twentieth annual convention held at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, California. Principal speakers at the dinner included Secretary of the Navy, Francis P. Matthews, who is seated at back table behind the microphone and General Mark W. Clark, Chief of the Army Field Forces who is seated second to the right of Secretary Matthews.

A group of military and government official are shown seated together while attending a Joint Orientation Conference held at Fort Benning, Georgia on November 4-5, 1949. Identification includes left to right: General Omar N. Bradley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; W. Stuart Symington, Secretary of the Air Force; Vice Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, Chief of Naval Operations; Louis Johnson, with gun in hands, Secretary of Defense; J. Lawton Collins, Chief of Staff of the Army; and Francis P. Matthews, Secretary of the Navy.

A group of invited individuals are shown having just departed from a United States Air Force airplane. They include left to right: General Omar N. Bradley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Louis Johnson, Secretary of Defense; unidentified; Francis P. Matthews, Secretary of the Navy; and W. Stuart Symington, Secretary of the Air Force. They are attending a Joint Orientation Conference held at Fort Benning, Georgia on November 4-5, 1949.