Early, Stephen T. (Stephen Tyree), 1889-1951

Scene of military band marching past the reviewing stand in the Armed Forces Day Parade. Seated in the first row of the reviewing stand, from left to right: unidentified man, Secretary of the Army Frank Pace, General Dwight Eisenhower, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, President Harry S. Truman, Admiral William Leahy, and Deputy Secretary of Defense Stephen Early. All others are unidentified.

Scene of uniformed women marching past the reviewing stand in the Armed Forces Day Parade. Seated in the first row of the reviewing stand, from left to right: unidentified man, Secretary of the Army Frank Pace, General Dwight Eisenhower, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, President Harry S. Truman, Admiral William Leahy, and Deputy Secretary of Defense Stephen Early. All others are unidentified.

Scene of soldiers driving in a jeep in the Armed Forces Day Parade, taken from back of reviewing stand. Seated in the first row of the reviewing stand, from left to right: Deputy Secretary of Defense Stephen Early, Admiral William Leahy, President Harry S. Truman, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson (slightly behind Truman), General Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (slightly behind Eisenhower). All others are unidentified.

Color guard passing the reviewing stand during the Armed Forces Day parade. Standing in the first row of the reviewing stand, from left to right: unidentified man, Secretary of the Army Frank Pace, General Dwight Eisenhower, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, President Harry S. Truman, Admiral William Leahy, and Deputy Secretary of Defense Stephen Early. All others are unidentified.

Scene of military band marching past the reviewing stand in the Armed Forces Day Parade. Standing in the first row of the reviewing stand, from left to right: Secretary of the Army Frank Pace, General Dwight Eisenhower, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, President Harry S. Truman, Admiral William Leahy, and Deputy Secretary of Defense Stephen Early. All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman with other dignitaries on the reviewing stand during a parade in honor of Armed Forces Day. From left to right: Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (behind Eisenhower), General Dwight Eisenhower, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, President Truman, Admiral William Leahy, and Deputy Secretary of Defense Stephen Early. All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman and other dignitaries on the reviewing stand during an Armed Forces Day parade. From left to right: General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, the President, Admiral William Leahy, and Deputy Secretary of Defense Stephen Early. Seated in the second row are, from left to right: Under Secretary of State James Webb, Attorney General J. Howard McGrath (partly obscured by Johnson), unidentified man, and Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer. All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman at his desk in the Oval Office, signing H.R. 5632, the National Security Act Amendments of 1949, which converted the National Military Establishment into a new Department of Defense and made other changes in the national security system.

President Harry S. Truman, seated behind his desk, distributes pens he used to sign the National Security Act Amendments bill to assembled on-lookers. From left to right: Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, unidentified, Congressman Dewey Short, Congressman Carl Vinson, Secretary of the Army Gordon Gray, unidentified, Secretary of the Air Force Stuart Symington, Under Secretary of Defense Stephen Early, and Secretary of the Navy Francis Matthews.

President Harry S. Truman is seated at his desk in the Oval Office, signing H.R. 5632, the National Security Act Amendments of 1949, which converted the National Military Establishment into a new Department of Defense and made other changes in the national security system.