Harry S. Truman is the one U.S. President whose lifetime encompassed the invention and rise of the automobile, as well as its ...

After succeeding Franklin Roosevelt in 1945, Harry S. Truman won the presidency in his own right in 1948, defeating Republican Thomas Dewey and achieving one of the most stunning political comebacks ...

President Harry Truman had a sign on his desk that read “The Buck Stops Here ... and the Battle of Okinawa — the bloodiest Pacific battle of World War II — was raging. As events unfolded, Truman would ...

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Amphibious operations were declared dead one-hundred years ago after the failed triple entente landings at Gallipoli early in ...

A special train carrying President. Harry S. Truman pulled into the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad station on East Norwegian Street on Oct. 22, 1952. Troops from Schuylkill County departed from the ...

The USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) is the eighth Nimitz-class ... as it served as the homeport for the Atlantic Fleet after ...