Potsdam Conference, 1945

Aerial view of the cruise ship U. S. S. Augusta (Captain Foskett commanding). This was the ship that carried President Truman to the Potsdam Conference. From the album: President's Trip to the Berlin Conference.

President Harry S. Truman (right) shakes hands with King George VI (foreground, left) of England on board the USS Augusta. This shows a back shot of the President and a front view of a smiling King George. Truman was on the way home from the Potsdam Conference and was visiting England for the first time. The naval officer in the background is Walter H. Dunnican.

In Germany for the Potsdam conference, President Harry S. Truman, reading a newspaper in the back seat of an automobile, speaks to General Dwight D. Eisenhower standing by the open back door. From: Francis D. Peterson

President Harry S. Truman (foreground, left) greets British Prime Minister Clement Attlee (right) at the conference table at Potsdam, Germany. Seated at the conference table (center) is Ernest Bevin, British Foreign Secretary. Mr. Attlee arrived back in Potsdam, accompanied by Mr. Bevin, to resume the Berlin Conference discussions with President Truman and Marshal Stalin. From: Cyril Clemens, Mark Twain Journal, Kirkwood, Missouri.

Main entrance to Cecilienhof Palace, the estate that was the site of the Potsdam Conference. From Potsdam album, 1945.