As the war in Europe ended, General Eisenhower honored the 82nd Airborne Division with occupation duty in Berlin, while the 508th PIR was detached from the division and sent to Frankfurt for occupation and honor guard duty at SHAEF. In the summer of 1945, the division served as the honor guard during the famous Potsdam Conference, where the “Big Three”—Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and U.S. President Harry Truman—negotiated the terms for the end of World