Sworn in as the 33rd president after Franklin Delano Roosevelt's sudden death, Harry S. Truman presided over the end of WWII and dropped the atomic bomb on Japan.
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States, serving in office from 1945 to 1953. Prior to becoming President, Truman had briefly served as Vice President of the United States under Franklin D. Roosevelt, and before that as a U.S. Senator from Missouri. ...
[Photo] Harry Truman with his wife Bess and daughter Margaret waving from the train during the 1948 Presidential campaign, somewhere in the United States, 2 Oct 1948 | World War II Database
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd president of the United States who took office following the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1945. Truman served the remainder of Truman's term and won another term in 1952 when he defeated Thomas E. Dewey in the general election....
[Photo] James Byrnes, Andrei Gromyko, Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov at Stalin's residence during the Potsdam Conference, Germany, 18 Jul 1945, photo 1 of 2 | World War II Database