EVB2946760: Presentation of 12,000 Nationalist Chinese Troops in Ninghaia to U.S. Gen. Claire Chennault. The Nationalist Chinese Muslim Army, was ready to confront the People's Liberation Army. May 4, 1949. As a Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War became inevitable, the desperate Kuomintang recruited Khampa soldiers in southwest China. / Bridgeman Images
EVB2946859: President Harry Truman, center, presenting chemist Dr. James Conant with the Medal of Merit and Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster. Dr. Vannevar Bush stands at left. Conant and Bush played critical leadership roles in the Manhattan Project which developed the Atomic Bomb in World War 2. / Bridgeman Images