USS AUGUSTA (CA-31)

ATLANTIC CONFERENCE
Photo of Participants

The impressive list of notables who attended the Atlantic Charter Conference I August, 1941, line up aboard the Navy Cruiser, U.S.S. AUGUSTA, for a group portrait. They are, left to right: Front row: Sir Alexander Cadogan, British Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs: R.A.F. Air chief Marshal Wilfred Freeman; Prime Minister Winston Churchill' President Franklin D. Roosevelt; Admiral Sir Dudley Pound,First Lord of the British Admiralty; Field Marshal Sir John Dill of the British Army; Lord Cherwell.-------Second Row: Averill Harriman; Harry Hopkins; Admiral Ernest J. King, U.S.N. Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Fleet; Rear Admiral Ross McIntire, U.S.N. Chief of the Naval Bureau of Medicine and Surgery; Major General Edwin M. Watson, U.S.A. Aide to the President; Lt. John Roosevelt; Admiral Harold R. Stark, U.S.N. Commander, U.S. Naval Forces in Europe; Rear Admiral John R. Beardall, U.S.N.' General George Rear Admiral John C. Marshall, U.S.A. Commander-in-chief, U.S. Army; and Lt. (now Lt. Comdr.) Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. U.S.N.R. ---Standing between and immediately behind the President and Mr. Churchill, is Summer Welles, then Under Secretary of State.

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