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Photo #: USA C-1860 (Color)

Potsdam Conference, July-August 1945


The "Big Three" pose with their principal advisors, at Potsdam, Germany, circa 28 July -- 1 August 1945.
The three heads of government are (seated, left to right):
British Prime Minister Clement Atlee;
U.S. President Harry S. Truman;
Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin.
Standing behind them are (left ot right):
Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, USN, Truman's Chief of Staff;
British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin;
U.S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes;
Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov.

Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

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5 March 1999