Medal of Honor
President Harry S. Truman Awards Medal of Honor to Commander Richard Antrim
President Harry S. Truman (right) awards the Medal of Honor to Commander Richard N. Antrim in a ceremony in the Oval Office at the White House.
President Harry S. Truman Presenting the Medal of Honor
President Harry S. Truman shaking hands with Chaplain Commander Joseph T. O'Callahan after Truman gave O'Callahan the Congressional Medal of Honor.
President Harry S. Truman With Medal of Honor Recipients
In a group medal presentation ceremony held in the White House south grounds garden, President Harry S. Truman awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor to four U.S. Army men and one U.S. Marine. Pictured sharing a handshake after the ceremony are left to right: Sergeant Alejandro R. Ruiz, Barstow, Texas; Technical Sergeant Beauford T. Anderson, Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin; Private First Class Dirk J. Vlug, Grand Rapids, Michigan; President Truman; Technical Sergeant John Meagher, Jersey City, New Jersey; and First Lieutenant John H. Leims, United States Marine Corps, Chicago, Illinois.
President Harry S. Truman Awards the Medal of Honor
President Harry S. Truman presents the Congressional Medal of Honor to Marine Private First Class Luther Skaggs, Jr., of Henderson, Kentucky. This award was presented to this soldier and three others this day at a ceremony on the White House grounds. PFC Skaggs kept fighting for eight hours in the Guam landing, July, 1944, despite serious wounds which later cost him his left leg. Standing next to President Truman is Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal. Others in the background are unidentified.