Ordnance

President Harry S. Truman posing next to a French 75mm field gun while on vacation in Key West, Florida. Same as 66-1369.

A French 75mm field gun at Fort Taylor reminds President Harry S. Truman of his World War I days. From the album of the President's second vacation trip to Key West, Florida.

Private Charles Preston, Nicholasville, Kentucky, brushes snow from 30 caliber machine gun mounted on his jeep. He is moving against the German counter-thrust. It snowed in this area on the first day of winter.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace, second from the right, stands with five other men while examining a piece of machinery found at the Riverbank Ordnance Plant in California. All others are unidentified.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace, second from the left, examines products made by the Riverbank Ordnance Plant in California along with four other men, one who is discussing the products with Pace. One woman looks on from the far left of the photograph. All others are unidentified.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace, third from the right, and a group of men wearing suits and hardhats look on as two men work with machinery found in the Riverbank Ordnance Plant in California. All other men are unidentified.

An explosion during the NATO War College weapons demonstration held at Grafenwoehr, Germany.

Demonstration of military hardware during President Harry S. Truman's visit to Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland.

PFC Paul Cecil mans a rocket launcher as PFC Junior Coram loads a rocket on a ridge in the Chigong-Ni area of South Korea. Both men are from the 35th Infantry regiment.

A group of Army officers from Washington, D. C., headed by Lt. Colonel A. Robert Ginsburgh, and men from Ellington Field visit the San Jacinto Ordnance Plant at Houston, Texas. This photo shows Col. Ginsburgh at the podium delivering a speech to a crowd of ordnance workers with unidentified officers and a civilian sitting behind him on a wooden platform. This is a visit to a defense plant.