Technical preparations for the Yalta Conference (1945)

American military engineers and signalmen on the territory of the Livadia Palace during the preparation of technical support for the Yalta Conference on January 31, 1945. American signalmen twist cables into a bundle and fasten them with electrical tape to provide various types of communication.

Soviet soldiers carry sacks across the palace grounds.

Soviet and American soldiers lean a wooden ladder they brought with them against a pole.

Soviet and American signalmen stretch communication cables between buildings on the territory of the Livadia Palace.

An American signalman secures a cable.

Views of the Livadia Palace on February 1, 1945. Soviet and American signalmen stack the brought reels of cable.

Soviet and American signalmen during a smoke break.

Unloading boxes of equipment from the back of a truck.

Soviet and American signalmen lay out the brought boxes of equipment and reels of cable near the palace building.

Stacking boxes of equipment.

Signalmen at work unpacking boxes of equipment and reels of cable.

A warehouse of equipment for providing communications on the palace grounds.

An American military truck with officers in the back drives up to the palace building on February 3, 1945. American soldiers carry the officers' belongings into the residential part of the palace.

The arrival of American troops at the Livadia Palace on February 3, 1945. The faces of American troops getting out of their vehicles and entering the palace.

American naval officers getting out of their vehicles and heading toward the palace entrance.