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 Truman
Flies To Frankfurt
FRANKFURT-ON-THE-MAIN, July 26 -- (AP -- President
Truman arrived here today to inspect American troops and have lunch with
Gen. Eisenhower, after a 90-minute flight from Potsdam.
The President took off from the Gatow Airport, and flew at 6,000
feet all the way.
Mr. Truman arrived at the Eschborne Army Airport soon after 9:30
a.m., a few minutes behind Secretary Byrnes, who came on another plane.
The President began a round of inspection with a review of an honor
guard made up from the 508th Parachute Troop Regiment of the 82nd
Airborne Division. |
  Right,
President Truman steps down the ladder of his C-54 at a Frankfurt
airport, where he met Gen. Eisenhower and an honor guard of the 508th
Prcht Inf. Regt.
Above, the Presidential convoy [note: photo not available] moves
past a unit of the Third Armd. Div, in its tour of the Frankfurt area.
A World War I artillery officer, Mr. Truman halted the convoy to chat
with the men of an FA unit when he saw their guidon. |
Army One?
puny and slow compared to the 747 used in today's presidential
fleet, this C-54 was state-of-the-art in 1945 |
The 118th AGF band-- the combined bands of the 29th Inf. Regt. and the
508th Prcht.-- march before the President |
 Supreme Commander and His Boss, The Commander-In-Chief
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, second from left, chuckles as. President Harry S. Truman chats with unidentified man (back to camera). All other people are unidentified.
(courtesy Liz Farrell) |
