25th July 1942:  British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), on a launch leaving Westminster Pier, with American politicians Harry Hopkins (1890 - 1946), John Winant (1889 - 1947) and William Bullitt (1891 - 1967). The English Labour politician and First Lord of the Admiralty in the wartime coalition, A V Alexander (1885 - 1965) is on the right.  (Photo by Charles Trusler/Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)