Leaders of the Big Three and their advisors prior to the opening of a session of the Potsdam Conference

President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Union Prime Minister Josef Stalin and their advisors are seated around the round conference table prior to the opening of one of the Potsdam Conference meetings in Potsdam, Germany. President Truman has his back to the camera; Prime Minister Stalin is on the right side of the photograph; Prime Minister Churchill is on the left side; they are in the chairs with more ornamentation on the backs. Ambassador Joseph Davies and interpreter Charles Bohlen are seated to the left of President Truman in the photograph; Secretary of State James Byrnes and Admiral William Leahy are seated to the right of President Truman. All others are unidentified. United States Army Signal Corps photo. [National Archives identifier 198687]