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Photo #: SC 338221 Exercise "Portrex", March 1950 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. Online Image: 159KB; 740 x 620 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

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20 January 2000