Armed forces officers

Lieutenant Colonel James P. Smith, Jr., interviews applicants for passes to the Potsdam Conference area. From Potsdam album, 1945.

Secretary of State James F. Byrnes greeted by General Floyd Parks at Gatow Airport in Berlin. Mr. Byrnes is attending the Potsdam Conference. From Potsdam album, 1945.

Sir Alexander Cadogan, Permanent Under Secretary of the British Foreign Office, and Colonel David Bevan (right) of the British Army, leave Gatow Airport in Berlin, Germany for the Potsdam Conference area. From Potsdam album, 1945.

President Harry S. Truman visits Soviet Prime Minister Josef Stalin at Mr. Stalin's residence during the Potsdam Conference in Germany. From left to right on the balcony: unidentified man; Major General Harry Vaughan (partly obscured); Secretary of State James Byrnes; Soviet Ambassador to the United States Andrei Gromyko (behind Byrnes); President Truman; Premier Josef Stalin; and Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov. All others are unidentified. From Potsdam album, 1945.

President Harry S. Truman and Secretary of State James Byrnes visit Premier Josef Stalin of the Soviet Union at Stalin's residence during the Potsdam Conference in Germany. On the balcony in the foreground are, left to right: Secretary of State Byrnes, President Truman, Premier Stalin, and Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet foreign minister General Harry H. Vaughan is in the background, second from the left. Soviet Ambassador to the United States Andrei Gromyko is in the background, behind James Byrnes. All others are unidentified. From Potsdam album, 1945.

Lieutenant Colonel James P. Smith, Jr. of Ipswich, Massachusetts, Provost Marshall of the Berlin District, left, and Major William J. E. Keish, Commanding Officer, 713th Military Police Battalion, from Brooklyn, New York, check pass lists for the Potsdam Conference area in Potsdam, Germany. From Potsdam album, 1945.

Left to right: General Harry Vaughan, Soviet Prime Minister Josef Stalin, President Harry S. Truman, Soviet Ambassador to the United States Andrei Gromyko, Secretary of State James Byrnes, and Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov during Truman's visit at Premier Stalin's residence during the Potsdam Conference. From Potsdam album, 1945.

Soviet officers on duty at the main entrance of the Cecilienhof Palace during the Potsdam Conference. From Potsdam album, 1945.

Admiral Ernest J. King, left, and Rear Admiral Howard A. Flanigan salute the Military Police officers as they leave Cecilienhof Palace, scene of the Potsdam Conference in Potsdam, Germany after a meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. General Henry H. Arnold follows in the rear. From Potsdam album, 1945.

United States and Soviet Chiefs of Staff meet in the Cecilienhof Palace during the Potsdam Conference in Potsdam, Germany. In the group are General Antonov (center rear, with map in front of him), Chief of Russian Military Staff; General George C. Marshall (right); General Henry Arnold (seated at General Marshall's left); and Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, Chief of Naval Operations (on General Marshall's right). Others are unidentified. From Potsdam album, 1945.