U.S. President meets members of Navy band. U.S. President Harry S.

U.S. President meets members of Navy band. U.S. President Harry S. Truman (left) shakes hands with members of a Navy band following a concert aboard the Augusta, U.S. cruiser which carried him across the Atlantic en route to the Berlin Conference. Shown are (left to right): the President, Musician second class William Mercier, Musician second class J.M. Gergely (shaking hands), Seaman first class A.H. Drumright, Jr. and Seaman first class Floyd Stivers. In Potsdam, a suburb of Berlin, Germany, President Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Josef Stalin and the heads of foreign affairs of the three nations started a series of conferences on July 16, 1945.