Quote Originally Posted by namvet View Post
I finally found it









that's Truman with SOS James Byrne's on board the USS Augusta (CA-31) on the trip to Potsdam for the conference with Churchill and Stalin. in the back ground is my dad's cruiser the USS Philadelphia (CL-41) while I knew his ship was an escort this is the first photo i found of it. I think it was Byrne's who convinced Truman to use the bombs on Japan or else face the wrath of the American people in the post war or even face impeachments.




Sitting (from left): Clement Attlee, Harry S. Truman, Joseph Stalin, and behind: Fleet Admiral William Daniel Leahy, Ernest Bevin, James F. Byrnes, and Vyacheslav Molotov.

Why? You put effort into looking up Truman? The guy who took the military out of the hands of the military? Or is there more to the story?