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President Harry S. Truman Returns to the United States After the Potsdam Conference

63-1453-49
Accession Number
63-1453-49
8x10 inches (21x26 cm)
Black & White
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NAID 348307133
Keywords
Cabinet officers
Naval officers
Potsdam Conference, 1945
Presidential press secretaries
Presidential trips
Presidents
Ships
HST Keywords
Chesapeake Bay; Potsdam - U. S. S. Augusta; Ships - U. S. S. Augusta - Truman aboard; Truman - Potsdam - U. S. S. Augusta
People Pictured
Byrnes, James F. (James Francis), 1882-1972
Leahy, William D. (William Daniel), 1875-1959
Nixon, Robert G., journalist
Ross, Charles G. (Charles Griffith), 1885-1950
Smith, Albert Merriman, 1913-1970
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
Vardaman, James K. (James Kimble), 1894-1972
Hoying, Edwin L., 1918-2002
Elsey, George McKee, 1918-2015
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Credit:
U.S. Army Signal Corps

Harry S. Truman Library & Museum.

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Description

President Harry S. Truman and members of his party aboard the USS Augusta as the ship entered Chesapeake Bay, returning President Truman from the Potsdam Conference in Germany. Fourth from left is ship's clerk Edwin L. Hoying; Captain James Vardaman is sixth from the left (in dark uniform); to his left is Press Secretary Charles Ross; to his left is Secretary of State James Byrnes; to his left is President Truman; and to his left is Admiral William Leahy. Lieutenant George Elsey is the tall person two rows behind President Truman. United Press correspondent Merriman Smith is behind Ross's left shoulder. Associated Press reporter Ernest (Tony) Vaccaro is behind Leahy's left shoulder. International News Service correspondent Robert G. Nixon is in the front row, right, with sunglasses. Others are unidentified. From the album, Number 2: "President Truman's Trip to Potsdam."

Date(s)
August 7, 1945