Harry Truman was the only American president to have seen action in World War I. Franklin Roosevelt was assistant secretary of the Navy, and Dwight Eisenhower was an Army training officer, a brevet lieutenant colonel; but neither saw action overseas.

Harry Truman is the only US president to see combat during the First World War. His war experience affected the course of his life and influenced his rise to the presidency in two important ways: he discovered a leadership ability he hadn’t known that he possessed, and he garnered a significant political base that supported him in his rise ...

Truman implemented the Marshall Plan in the wake of World War II to rebuild the economy of Western Europe and established both the Truman Doctrine and NATO to contain the expansion of Soviet communism.

Harry S. Truman was the only President of the United States who served in combat during World War I.

Battery D, 129th Field Artillery, Capt. Harry Truman Circled Movement was steady but came to an abrupt halt at the first line of defense where retreating Germans had blasted huge craters at point A in the Route National and a side used by Truman's battery.

On June 14, 1905, the man who would become America's 33rd president enlisted in Light Battery B of the Missouri National Guard. The 21-year-old Harry S. Truman was so proud of his new uniform...

This collection focuses on World War I. The collection includes documents covering the years 1917 to 1968. Supporting materials include photographs and oral history transcripts.

2020年9月16日 · Harry S. Truman had only been vice president of the United States for 82 days when urgently summoned to the White House on April 12, 1945. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt greeted the then 60-year-old former senator from Missouri and gently touched his shoulder. “Harry,” she told him, “the president is dead.”

Long before serving as the 33rd President of the United States, Harry S Truman served his country on the front lines of World War I. After the United States entered the First World War in April 1917, Harry Truman reenlisted in the National Guard of Missouri.

2018年7月3日 · Former U.S. Marine Corps historian and archivist Michael Miller discussed Harry Truman's views of the U.S. Marine Corps, which he argued were first formed during his service as an Army artillery captain in World War I.