Potsdam Conference, 1945

View from the USS Augusta of other ships and the shoreline near Great Britain. The USS Augusta is preparing to return to the United States after the Potsdam Conference. The ship on the left is likely the HMS Renown.

President Harry S. Truman (on ramp, wearing hat) leaves the USS Augusta at Antwerp, Belgium to embark on a flight to Berlin, Germany to attend the Potsdam Conference. Walking behind President Truman is Secretary of State James Byrnes. Photographers and all others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (left) smiles upon meeting King George VI of England (right). The King paid a visit to President Truman aboard the USS Augusta, as the Augusta was preparing to return to the United States from the Potsdam Conference. Also present is Captain James Foskett, Commanding Officer of the Augusta (behind President Truman, mostly obscured).

United States Ambassador to Great Britain John G. Winant (left) and an unidentified United States Army officer are preparing to board the USS Augusta to meet with President Harry S. Truman. They visited President Truman on board the ship as he was returning to the United States from the Potsdam Conference. From the album President's trip to the Berlin Conference, vol. 2 of 2

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.

President Harry S. Truman (not visible), Secretary of State James Byrnes (inside boat, right) and Admiral William Leahy (inside boat, second from right) travel in a boat to the HMS Renown to call upon King George VI of Great Britain. Sailors on board the ship are unidentified. They are preparing to return to the United States from the Potsdam Conference.

Unidentified sailor are on board a ship, with other ships visible in the distance, somewhere near Great Britain. This photo was taken as the USS Augusta returned to the United States from the Potsdam Conference.

Sailors "man the rail" and salute the USS Augusta at is reaches Antwerp, Belgium. The USS Augusta is carrying President Harry S. Truman and members of his party to the Potsdam Conference. All are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (seated, waving hat) acknowledges greetings from the shore as the USS Augusta arrives in Antwerp, Belgium. President Truman and his party are en route to the Potsdam Conference. Seated on President Truman's left is Press Secretary Charles Ross. Standing behind President Truman, from left to right, are Captain James Vardaman, Secretary of State James Byrnes (partly obscured), and Admiral William Leahy. All others are unidentified.

Left to right: Secretary of State James Byrnes, General Harry Vaughan (standing), and President Harry S. Truman on the USS Augusta, approaching Antwerp, Belgium. They are en route to the Potsdam Conference. Others in the background are unidentified.