Marines

An officer walks behind Navy and Marine personnel lined up in formation outside a terminal building at an unidentified airport in the Caribbean, probably waiting for the arrival of President Harry S. Truman during his trip to Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Cuba. All are unidentified. From: Naval Photo Center, sent to the Truman Library by the National Archives. Original 4x5 negative.

Marine Colonel Justice M. Chambers of Rockville, Maryland, holds his seven month old twins, Peter and Paul, while President Harry S. Truman (left) is shaking hands with one of the youngsters. President Truman has just awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor to Col. Chambers for gallantry at Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands, February 19-22, 1945, during World War II. On the right is Mrs. Chambers and behind her is General Clifton B. Cates, Commandant of the Marine Corps. All others are unidentified.

Marines from Tientsin, on railcar, who brought jeeps to Mukden, Manchuria, for use by the Reparations Mission led by Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley. 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).

Former President Harry S. Truman (left), wearing a celebratory garland, with an unidentified military officer at the Marine Corps Air Station in Kane'ohe Bay, Hawaii. Mr. Truman is also visiting Ed Pauley on Coconut Island during this trip.

Former President Harry S. Truman (at far left in viewing stand) with unidentified military officers at a commissioning ceremony at the Marine Corps Air Station in Kane'ohe Bay, Hawaii.

Former President Harry S. Truman (far right) and two unidentified military officers at a commissioning ceremony at the Marine Corps Air Station in Kane'ohe Bay, Hawaii.

Former President Harry S. Truman (front row, second from left), former First Lady Bess Wallace Truman (front row, fifth from left), Margaret Truman (second row, fifth from left), and others at the Marine Corps Air Station in Kane'ohe Bay, Hawaii.

Margaret Truman (front row, fourth from right), Bess Wallace Truman (front row, far right), and other spectators at a commissioning ceremony at the Marine Corps Air Station in Kane'ohe Bay, Hawaii.

Former President Harry S. Truman (standing, far right) riding in Corporal A. R. Williams's Jeep with three unidentified military officers at the Marine Corps Air Station in Kane'ohe Bay, Hawaii.

Former President Harry S. Truman (left) with two unidentified U.S. military officers at a commissioning ceremony at the Marine Corps Air Station in Kane'ohe Bay, Hawaii.