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American and Russian Chiefs of Staff meet at Potsdam conference

United States and Soviet Chiefs of Staff meet in the Cecilienhof Palace during the Potsdam Conference in Potsdam, Germany. In the group are General Antonov (center rear, with map in front of him), Chief of Russian Military Staff; General George C. Marshall (right); General Henry Arnold (seated at General Marshall's left); and Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, Chief of Naval Operations (on General Marshall's right). Others are unidentified. From Potsdam album, 1945.

Generals Marshall and Arnold during Potsdam Conference

General George C. Marshall, U. S. Army Chief of Staff, and General Henry H. Arnold, Commanding General, U. S. Army Air Forces, arrive at the residence of Prime Minister Winston Churchill for a dinner given by the British Prime Minister for President Truman and Soviet leader Josef Stalin during the Potsdam Conference. The two generals return the salute of the Guard of Honor formed by a detachment of Scots Guards of the British Brigade of Foot Guards. From Potsdam album, 1945