Veterans

Sergeant Carmen Gallicchio (left) and Corporal Rocco R. Gallicchio (right) with a plaque for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

During a dinner meeting of the U.S. Navy Fleet Reserve Association at the Bellerive Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, former President Harry S. Truman (center) chats with two unidentified men. Mr. Truman is an honorary member of the Association. From: Dr. D. M. Nigro.

During a dinner meeting of the U.S. Navy Fleet Reserve Association at the Bellerive Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, former President Harry S. Truman (left) chats with an unidentified man. Mr. Truman is an honorary member of the Association. From: Dr. D. M. Nigro

Honorary member, former President Harry S. Truman (center), sits at the dinner table at a meeting of the U.S. Navy Fleet Reserve Association, at the Bellerive Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. The other men are unidentified. From: Dr. D. M. Nigro.

Honorary member, former President Harry S. Truman, (second from left) watches two people at the podium during a U.S. Navy Fleet Reserve Association dinner at the Bellerive Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. The other men are unidentified. From: Dr. D. M. Nigro.

Former President Harry S. Truman (waving hat), flanked by an unidentified motorcycle escort, waves from the rear seat of a Cadillac convertible in Clinton, Missouri where he will attend the opening of the Henry County Fair. Seated next to him is Clinton Postmaster Walter Meneffee, Truman's sergeant in Battery D, 35th Division during World War I. The driver is Cleo Woody of Woody Motor Company. The front passenger is Asher Williams, president of the Clinton Chamber of Commerce. From: Elvin Durr.

Former President Harry S. Truman stands by a Delta airplane after arriving in Little Rock, Arkansas, for a 35th Division reunion. With him are two members of Battery "D" and two representatives of Delta Airlines. Left to right are: Mr. V.A. Mensies (Delta Air Lines), Francis Yeager (Battery "D"), President Truman, Delta hostess, and Jack Bullard (Battery "D"). From: V.A. Mensies, Delta-C&S Air Lines, Muehlebach Hotel, Kansas City, Missouri

Members of Battery "D", 129th Field Artillery, 35th Division, sit at a table enjoying the breakfast given by President Harry S. Truman for his comrades at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C., during the 1949 inauguration ceremonies. (See 67-6999 for photo of entire room.) All are unidentified.

Members of Battery "D," 129th Field Artillery, 35th Division, President Harry S. Truman's outfit in World War I, arrived with their families by train at Union Station in Washington, D.C., from Kansas City, Missouri, for the inauguration ceremonies. Each held a cane which he waved in high spirits. (See 68-1939.)

Veterans of World War I who served in the 129th Field Artillery, Battery "D", under former President Harry S. Truman when he was a captain pose in their uniforms for a photo the day after the dedication of the National Guard Memorial Building in Washington, D.C. Left to right are: Frank King, Eddie Meisburger, Eugene Donnelly, and Arthur Bell.