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SC 338221 Exercise "Portrex", March 1950

Photo #: SC 338221 Exercise "Portrex", March 1950
Title: Exercise "Portrex", March 1950
Description: Senior Department of Defense officials and officers witness the Portrex D-Day maneuvers, 8 March 1950. Present in the front row are (left to right): Major General William C. Chase, U.S. Army, Secretary of the Navy Francis P. Matthews, Lieutenant General W.H.H. Morris, U.S. Army, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, and Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, USN, Chief of Naval Operations. Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.
Catalog #: SC 338221
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