Potsdam Conference, 1945

Left to right: Captain James Foskett, Secretary of State James Byrnes, and President Harry S. Truman on board the U.S.S. August, en route to Potsdam, Germany. Donor: Gerald Wichner.

President Harry S. Truman, seated at ringside, surrounded by sailors, watches a boxing match on the U.S.S. Augusta during voyage to the Potsdam Conference in Germany. Donor: Gerald Wichner.

President Harry S. Truman eats with sailors aboard the U.S.S. Augusta, en route to the Potsdam Conference in Germany. Donor: Gerald Wichner.

President Harry S. Truman boards the ship U.S.S. Augusta to attend Potsdam Conference in Germany. As crew stands at attention, the President places his hat over his heart. Signed on front of snapshot "Gerald Wichner, R.M. U.S.S. Augusta, Going to Big Three Meeting." Donor: Gerald Wichner.

Left to right: Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain, President Harry S. Truman, and Generalissimo Joseph Stalin of Russia, sitting in the garden at Potsdam in front of a barrage of cameras. Fourth from the left of those standing is General Harry Vaughan, Military Aide to Truman. From: Kirke B. Lawton, Major General, United States Army.

General Brehon Somervell (at the foot of the stairs) the Cecilienhof Palace, scene of the Potsdam Conference in Potsdam, Germany with Major General Charles P. Gross, left, and Lieutenant Colonel Edward Martin, Jr., rear, after a meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Others in photo are unidentified. From Potsdam album, 1945

President Harry S. Truman (left) and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (right) at the bottom of the stairs of the "Little White House," the residence of President Truman during the Potsdam Conference in Germany. Standing at the top of the stairs are Admiral William Leahy (far left) and Mary Churchill, daughter of Winston Churchill (second from right). At the right is General Harry Vaughan. Others are unidentified. From Potsdam album, 1945.

Prime Minister Winston Churchill (left), President Harry S. Truman (center), and General Joseph Stalin in a garden at Cecilienhof, Berlin during the Potsdam conference. From Potsdam album #2, Trip to Potsdam.

The Big Three (Harry S. Truman, Josef Stalin, and Clement Attlee) and their advisors settle down to discussions at the conference table at Potsdam. Stalin, Truman, and Attlee are seated in the chairs with the gold figures on the back. Others are unidentified. From the album, number 2: "President Truman's Trip to Potsdam." Same as 63-1453-23.

Secretary of State James Byrnes (left) is greeted at the airport en route to the Potsdam Conference by Soviet Ambassador to the United States Andrei Gromyko (center) and Soviet Foreign Affairs Minister Andrey Vyshinsky (right).