Video: 'The World At War 1973(World War II Documentary)Episode 24-The Bomb(February–September 1945)' (August 2, 1945, at 34:10)

(Thursday, August 2, 1945, 3:49 p.m. CEST; during World War II) — President Harry S. Truman set sail from Plymouth, England, for the U.S. this afternoon aboard the USS Augusta following the 17-day Potsdam Conference with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in Potsdam, occupied Germany (click here for a clip of this event from “American Experience: Truman” at 2:10:03).

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