Veterans

Raymond Foley, Administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency (left), poses for a photograph with Paul Ginsberg, National Commander of the Jewish War Veterans (right).

Harry S. Truman and the 129th Field Artillery stand in front of the Muehlebach Hotel during the November 1921 Armistice parade in Kansas City, Missouri. Truman is in uniform, on the far side of the street, behind the man in the suit.

Portrait of Courtney Whitney, a former United States Army pilot and lawyer in private practice in the Philippines. It is autographed, "To my good friend, Weldon -- fine American--a real comrade. from Courtney Whitney, July 27, 1939.

President Harry S. Truman (front row, second from left) awards the Congressional Medal of Honor to World War II veteran Colonel Justice M. Chambers, United States Marine Corps Reserve for gallant action on Iwo Jima, February, 1945. Also present are Secretary of Defense George Marshall (front row, left); Secretary of the U.S. Navy Francis P. Matthews, front row, far right; Marine Commandant General Clifton B. Cates, second row, second from the right; and Presidential Military Aide Harry Vaughan standing in background on far left.

Marine Corps Reserve 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 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 with their two sons standing beside her and a daughter beside her father directly behind the twin on the left. Behind her is General Clifton B. Cates, Commandant of the Marine Corps.

Unidentified members of the Philippines Department of the American Legion participate in a ceremony at a cemetery.

Portrait of J. Weldon Jones. He is wearing his American Legion hat.

Paul V. McNutt, fifth from left, and J. Weldon Jones, eighth from left, sit with unidentified others at a Philippine Division of the American Legion Dinner in Manila.

Paul V. McNutt (partly obscured, third from left) and J. Weldon Jones (behind table, sixth from right) attend an American Legion meeting in the Philippines with other unidentified veterans.

J. Weldon Jones (table on right, second from left on inner side of table) sits with unidentified others at an American Legion Dinner in Manila, Philippines.