Promoted Sergeant Majors with Major General Louis W. Truman, Fort Lewis, Washington
Nine of the eleven sergeant majors promoted to the United States Army enlisted super-grade of E-9 form a figure "nine" with Major General Louis W. Truman outside the Fort Lewis, Washington headquarters. Counter-clockwise around the nine are Major General Louis Truman (holding patch in his hand), Master Sergeant Walter Coate, Master Sergeant Warren B. Dix, Master Sergeant James D. Kell, Master Sergeant William J. McGee, Master Sergeant Howard A. Brosseau, Master Sergeant Halvor K. Christiansen, Master Sergeant Charles R. Burnett, Master Sergeant John T.