While bigger and more detailed reports of the Philadelphia's return
were published in the Philadelphia newspapers,
the event was even noted
in the New England press.
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In the summer of 1945 the Philadelphia escorted the
cruiser Augusta with President Truman aboard to the Potsdam
Conference. On the
return
trip on August 6th, just
a few hundred
miles
out
of Norfolk,
the President
made his historic address to the American people reporting the atomic
bomb strike on Hiroshima, Japan.