Prime ministers

Leaders of the Big Three at the Potsdam Conference. Front row, left to right: Prime Minister Clement Attlee, President Harry S. Truman, General Joseph Stalin. Back row, left to right: Admiral William Leahy, Ernest Bevin, James F. Byrnes, and Vyacheslav Molotov.

President Harry S. Truman and Prime Minister Winston Churchill in front of a fireplace mantel on board the U. S. S. Williamsburg.

From left to right: Sir Anthony Eden, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, President Harry S. Truman and Prime Minister Winston Churchill on board the U. S. S. Williamsburg. Similar to photo number 61-20-08.

Posed photograph during the Potsdam conference, with, from left to right, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman, and Joseph Stalin. Standing in the background, third from the left, is Harry Vaughan. All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman meets with a delegation of officials from Great Britain on board the presidential yacht, the USS Williamsburg. Standing, from left to right: Ambassador Walter S. Gifford, General Omar Nelson Bradley, Sir Oliver Franks, Lord F. A. Cherwell, Lord Hastings Ismay, and W. Averell Harriman. Seated, from left to right: Sir Anthony Eden, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President Truman, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder, and Secretary of Defense Robert A. Lovett.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt (right) and Prime Minister Winston Churchill (right) meet at Wolfe's Cove railroad station upon their arrival for Quebec Conference.

President Harry S. Truman and Prime Minister Winston Churchill have an informal chat before lunch at Mr. Churchill's residence in the Berlin area. They are attending the Potsdam Conference.

In a triple handshake, President Harry S. Truman (center) holds the hands of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (left) and Soviet leader Josef Stalin (right) at Cecilienhof Palace during the Potsdam Conference. Others in the background are unidentified. Similar to 58-797, which is in color.

Much awaited "Big Three" conference was formally opened at 5:00, Berlin time the afternoon of July 17, 1945. The conference took place in a country estate in the Potsdam area of Berlin. Seen together just before the opening of the conference are Premier Joseph Stalin, President Harry S. Truman, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill, holding a cigar.

Prime Minister Clement Attlee, President Harry S. Truman, and Premier Joseph Stalin, at the Potsdam Conference, August 1, 1945.