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Stalin meets President Truman at the Potsdam Conference

Soviet Prime Minister Josef Stalin meets President Harry S. Truman for the first time at the Little White House during the Potsdam Conference. The Little White House is the residence of President Truman during the conference. Front row, from left to right: Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet foreign minister; Secretary of State James Byrnes; President Harry S. Truman; and Prime Minister Josef Stalin. Back row, left to right: Charles Bohlen, assistant to Mr. Byrnes; Admiral William D. Leahy; and V. N. Pavlov, Russian interpreter.

Truman, Churchill, and others aboard the U. S. S. Williamsburg

Aboard the U. S. S. Williamsburg, from left to right, seated: Anthony Eden, Winston Churchill, President Harry S. Truman, Dean Acheson, John W. Snyder, and Robert Lovett. Standing, left to right: Walter Gifford, Omar N. Bradley, Sir Oliver Franks, Lord Cherwell, Lord Hastings L. Ismay, and W. Averell Harriman. They are on board the presidential yacht for a conference.

Truman, Byrnes, and Leahy touring Berlin

President Harry S. Truman, Secretary of State James Byrnes, and Fleet Admiral William Leahy (left to right in the rear seat of the car) inspect the ruins of Hitler's Chancellery in Berlin, Germany. President Truman is in Germany to attend the Potsdam Conference. Standing on President Truman's side of the car is Major General Harry Vaughan. From the album, "The President's Trip to Potsdam, Album #1."