Photo: US Army
The Tehran Conference, November 143: Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill; the
first meeting of the Big Three, where the main agenda item was the
long-awaited Second Front in Europe. To attend the conference, President
Roosevelt secretly crossed the Atlantic aboard USS
Iowa, to which
various modifications had been made to accommodate him such as an elevator
and a special bathtub, making the
Iowa the only Navy ship to
have a bathtub on board.
References
- Tehran
Conference, Wikipedia, accessed 14 June 2018.
- President
Roosevelt's remarks to the Crew on Leaving the USS Iowa,
American Presidency Project, University of California at Santa Barbara.