Orphans

President Harry S. Truman (right) holds Sandra Marie Smith, an orphan of World War II from the Veterans of Foreign Wars Home. V.F.W. Commander-in-Chief, Ray H. Brannaman is with her to present the first Buddy Poppy of the V.F.W. fund drive to President Truman in the Oval Office.

A group of unidentified WACs play games with some of the German orphans they hosted for Thanksgiving Day dinner at their mess hall in Frankfurt, Germany.

Scene of the Mess Hall in Frankfurt, Germany, where WACs stationed there shared Thanksgiving Dinner with thirty German orphans. All are unidentified.

Lieutenant Colonel Kathleen McClure (second from right), European Theatre Staff Director for the Women's Army Corps (WACs), entertains some of the thirty German orphans that the WACs of the Frankfurt, Germany detachment hosted for Thanksgiving dinner in their mess hall. All others are unidentified.

The WACs in Frankfurt, Germany, entertained thirty German orphans for Thanksgiving dinner. Here the children are being loaded into United States Army trucks to be transported to the WAC mess hall while photographers take lots of pictures. All are unidentified.

Women's Army Corps (WAC) Colonel Westray Battle Boyce (center) shares a Thanksgiving dinner with two unidentified German orphans during her visit to Frankfurt, Germany while on a tour of WAC European facilities. Others in the background are unidentified.

Women's Army Corps (WAC) Colonel Westray Battle Boyce (center) shares a Thanksgiving dinner with two unidentified German orphans during her visit to Frankfurt, Germany while on a tour of WAC European facilities. Others in the background are unidentified.

Bess Truman points her white-gloved hand at Mrs. Meigs while attending a Garden Party at St. John's Orphanage. The city is unknown.

A soup kitchen for orphans in Servia, Greece. From an album, "Greece Before and After the War."

Orphaned children in Greece, looking at a cross that marks the remains of their family. From an album, "Greece Before and After the War."