Naval officers

Opening session of the Potsdam Conference in Potsdam, Germany. President Harry S. Truman is seated foreground (back to camera). Soviet Prime Minister Josef Stalin is at right. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill is at left. Secretary of State James Byrnes is seated to the right of President Truman. Admiral William Leahy is seated two to the right of President Truman. British foreign minister Anthony Eden is to the left of Winston Churchill. Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov is to the left of Prime Minister Stalin. All others are unidentified.

From left to right, President Harry S. Truman, Secretary of State James Byrnes and Captain James Foskett, commanding officer of the USS Augusta. Captain Foskett describes a pelorus to the others. They are aboard the Augusta en route to the Potsdam Conference in Germany.

Secretary of State James F. Byrnes (foreground, second from left) and King George VI (center, right) shake hands during the King visit aboard the USS Augusta. Also present are Admiral William D. Leahy (left), President Harry S. Truman (foreground, third from left, mostly obscured by King George VI), Captain James Foskett (right), and Captain James K. Vardaman (just behind Captain Foskett). All others are unidentified. King George VI visited the Augusta before it left to return to the United States from the Potsdam Conference.

Captain James H. Foskett walks down stairs in front of another officer during his change of command ceremony aboard the USS Augusta. All others are unidentified.

King George VI of Great Britain gives a salute as he is piped aboard the USS Augusta by unidentified United States Navy officers and sailors. Standing next to King George VI on the stairs is Lord Halifax, British Ambassador to the United States. He is visiting President Harry S. Truman, who is on the Augusta to travel back to the United States from the Potsdam Conference.

An unidentified Navy officer gives a speech during the change of command ceremony for Captain James H. Foskett (far left) aboard the USS Augusta. All others unidentified.

Captain James H. Foskett (left) shakes hands with unidentified servicemen during his change of command ceremony aboard the USS Augusta. Other soldiers and armed forces officers are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman informally inspects the USS Augusta while traveling to Antwerp for the Potsdam Conference. From left to right: President Truman, Captain James Foskett, and Secretary of State James F. Byrnes (behind Foskett). All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman is greeted as he arrived in Antwerp, Belgium en route to the Potsdam Conference in Germany. Left to right: Admiral William Leahy, Admiral H. R. Stark, Secretary of State James Byrnes, Ambassador Charles Sawyer, President Truman, General Dwight D. Eisenhower.

King George VI of England (in center of lines, left) inspects the crew of the U. S. S. Augusta. With him is Captain James Foskett, Commanding Officer of the ship (right). Others are unidentified. The King is paying a call on President Harry S. Truman, who is returning from the Potsdam Conference.