Potsdam Conference, 1945

President Harry S. Truman (center, foreground) and Secretary of State James Byrnes (behind Truman) are being piped aboard the USS Augusta. They are preparing to return to the United States after the Potsdam Conference. All others in the photo are unidentified. From the album "President's Trip to the Berlin Conference Vol. 2 of 2."

President Harry S. Truman (foreground, left) is chatting with Captain James Foskett, Commanding Officer of the USS Augusta (foreground, right). President Truman is on board the Augusta to return to the United States after his trip to the Potsdam Conference. Also present is Secretary of State James Byrnes (behind Foskett, partly obscured). All others are unidentified. From the album "President's Trip to the Berlin Conference Vol. 2 of 2."

Admiral Ralph Leatham, Commander in in Chief of Plymouth, England, (foreground, third from left) comes aboard the USS Augusta. All others are unidentified. From the album "President's Trip to the Berlin Conference Vol. 2 of 2."

President Harry S. Truman (second from right, in civilian clothes) is speaking with the Commanding Officer of the USS Augusta, Captain James Foskett (right). Also present is Admiral William D. Leahy (third from right). They are on board the USS Augusta to travel back to the United States from the Potsdam Conference. All others are unidentified. From the album "President's Trip to the Berlin Conference Vol. 2 of 2."

President Harry S. Truman (center, in civilian clothes) is embarking in the barge of Admiral Sir John Leatham to board the USS Augusta which will take President Truman back to the United States after his trip to the Potsdam Conference and to England. Other naval officers are unidentified. From the album "President's Trip to the Berlin Conference Vol. 2 of 2."

President Harry S. Truman returns to the USS Augusta, anchored at Plymouth, England, which will return him to the United States from the Potsdam Conference. From the album "President's Trip to the Berlin Conference Vol. 2 of 2."

President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Clement Attlee and Soviet Prime Minister Josef Stalin with their aides in the garden of Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam, Germany, during the Potsdam Conference. Seated, left to right: Prime Minister Attlee, President Truman, and Prime Minister Stalin. Standing, left to right: Admiral William D. Leahy; British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin; Secretary of State James Byrnes; and Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov. From the album "President's Trip to the Berlin Conference Vol. 2 of 2."

Fleet Admiral William Leahy (left) and his Aide, Lieutenant Julius C. Edelstein (right), are standing on the deck of the USS Augusta as they return from the Potsdam Conference. From the album President's trip to the Berlin Conference, vol. 2 of 2.

Members of the crew and President Harry S. Truman's party attend a boxing match/smoker aboard the USS Augusta, as they travel back to the United States from the Potsdam Conference. President Truman is seated in the first row facing the ring, near the center, wearing civilian clothes. Others are unidentified. From the album President's trip to the Berlin Conference, vol. 2 of 2.

President Harry S. Truman (center, bottom), James F. Byrnes (left, bottom), and Admiral William D. Leahy (right, bottom) watch as the HMS Renown sets off. King George VI traveled on the Renown to visit President Truman on the USS Augusta, before the Augusta returned to the United States after the Potsdam Conference. Others are unidentified. From the album President's trip to the Berlin Conference, vol. 2 of 2.