Military education

An aerial view of the United States Military Academy at West Point.

The Corps of Cadets on parade at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Part of the cadet corps at the United States Military Academy at West Point on parade.

View looking north up the Hudson River from the grounds of the United States Military Academy at West Point. Part of the Soldier's Monument shows in the foreground.

Portrait of Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, Superintendent of West Point.

West Point cadets move by the reviewing stand during the 1949 Inaugural Parade. All are unidentified. This photo came from an album of photos given to members of Battery D, 129th Field Artillery that attended the Inauguration of President Harry S. Truman.

Senator Harry S. Truman visits Wentworth Military Academy in Lexington, Missouri. Featured in the photograph, from left to right, are Major Ollie W. Reed; Cadet Captain Taylor; Colonel Sandford B. Sellers, president of the academy; Senator Truman, Colonel J. M. Sellers; and Major Wikoff. Moments after this picture was taken, Senator Truman entered the gymnasium to deliver a chapel address.

The 1951-1952 staff and faculty of the National War College in Washington, D.C. Front row, left to right: Edward H. Buehrig; Joseph D. Coppock; Edward Page, Jr.; Rear Admiral Emmet P. Forrestel; Lieutenant General Harold R. Bull; Major General John M. Weikert; John W. Masland; Easton C. Rothwell; Arthur H. Steiner. Second row, left to right: Colonel John F. Bird; Colonel Charles M. McCarthy; Colonel Richard H. Lee; Captain Lewis Parks; Vinton Chapin; Colonel Benjamin S. Kelsey; Colonel Arthur J. Pierce; Colonel Harry O. Paxson; Captain Glenn R. Hartwig.

Staff and facility of the National War College of 1951-1952 in Washington, D.C. Captain Lewis S. Parks is pictured second row, fourth from left. Others are unidentified.

View includes what appears to be parachute training facilities located at Fort Benning, Georgia. Photograph is part of a scrapbook identified as "The Infantry School, Fort Benning, Ga., 4-5 November 1949, Joint Orientation Conference." Scrapbook includes a list of those attending as well as the itinerary for the conference and this information is filed with the photographs.