Closeup of Amelia Earhart Putnam. She and crew land at Burry Port, Wales, after a 21 hour journey from Trepassey Bay, Newfoundland, in the Fokker F. VII b-3 trimotor seaplane, "Friendship." Crowd welcomes them at the waterfront. Crew members descend from the seaplane. Amelia Earhart poses with pilot Wilmer Stultz and flight mechanic Louis Gordon. They are ferried, with several others, in a small boat, to Southhampton, England.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill is seen on the balcony of the Alþingi (Parliament House) in Reykjavik, Iceland on August 17, 1941, when he visited during voyage home from the Atlantic Conference in Newfoundland, in World War 2. To his left are Icelandic Prime Minister Hermann Jonasson and Regent Sveinn Björnsson. Churchill appears to make brief remarks to a group of civilian Icelanders assembled in the plaza below. The crowd is passive. Some take photographs. (Iceland is under British occupation at this time.)
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Atlantic Conference in Newfoundland during World War II. People gathered during a church service aboard HMS Prince of Wales. Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt seated. Standing behind them are U.S. Navy Admiral Ernest J. King, U.S. Army General George C. Marshall, British Army General Sir John Dill, United States Navy Admiral Harold R. Stark and Royal Navy Admiral Sir Dudley Pound. USS Arkansas (BB-33) an a distance. Donation of Vice Admiral Harry Sander. Sailors and officers pray. A band master conducts a band. Winston Churchill on the deck.
The Atlantic Conference aboard HMS Prince of Wales in Newfoundland during World War II. A sailor stands on the bow of the battleship. Sailors near naval guns on the deck. Some men in a dock area. The ship anchored at the dock. The sailors remove a gangplank.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Newfoundland for the Atlantic Conference during World War II. Sailors wait aboard USS Augusta (CA-31). Officers greet each other. An officer walks up stairs. Franklin D. Roosevelt stands with an officer. The officer greet Franklin D. Roosevelt. Winston Churchill arrives and is greeted by the President. The ship is anchored at a dock. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill seated on the deck. Sailors on the dock.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Newfoundland for the Atlantic Conference during World War II. Sailors wait aboard USS Augusta (CA-31). They salute as an officer arrives. The sailors salute as Winston Churchill boards the ship. He is greeted by an officer. Officers direct him up the stairs. A cameraman in the foreground.
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