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Burke, V. C. (Vincent Cornelius), 1887-1965

Group photograph of President Truman with undersecretaries and aides of various executive departments

Dinner at the White House. Identified in the photograph: President Harry S. Truman; David K. E. Bruce; H. Freeman Matthews; Carlisle M. Humelsine; Adrian S. Fisher; John D. Hickerson; Charles E. Bohlen; John M. Allison; Howland Sargeant; Harold F. Linder; Edward H. Foley, Jr.; John S. Graham; Andrew S. Overby; Edward F. Bartlet; William W. Parsons; William C. Foster; Wilfred J. McNeil; Earl D. Johnson; Francis Shackleford; Fred Korth; Francis P. Whitehair; Herbert R. Askins; John F. Floberg; Roswell L. Gilpatric; James T. Hill, Jr.; Ross L. Malone, Jr.; A. Holmes Baldridge; James M.

Photo of the presentation of the Postal Department's first "Air Letter" to Secretary of Commerce W. Averill Harriman

The Post Office Department's first "Air Letter," peacetime successor to V-Mail, was presented to Secretary of Commerce W. Averill Harriman (right). The presentation was made by Washington Postmaster Vincent O. Burke in the office of Post Master General Robert Hannegan. Left to right are Mr. Burke, Emory S. Land, President of the Air Transport Association, and Secretary Harriman. From: Beth Gore.