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While Allied heads of state discussed diplomatic policy at the 1943 Québec Conference, the leaders of their armed forces were discussing military strategy. This rare photograph shows them at work around a map of the world and another of Europe. The lives of thousands of soldiers were in their hands.
1942 - 1944

The Québec Conferences during World War II

In 1943 and again in 1944, during World War II, the Allied leaders gathered in Québec City for a major military summit. These conferences were called by the code names “Quadrant” and “Octogone.” Canadian prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King hosted the American and British leaders, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. They met at the Château Frontenac and the Citadel. In particular, they planned the Normandy landings, the operation that led to the Allied victory over Nazi Germany. Discover the moments when a great page of world history was written in Québec City!

Military personnel at the Québec Conference

Auteur inconnu While Allied heads of state discussed diplomatic policy at the 1943 Québec Conference, the leaders of their armed forces were discussing military strategy. This rare photograph shows them at work around a map of the world and another of Europe. The lives of thousands of soldiers were in their hands.
Chronoscope Can you identify these people? (unilingual French for a limited time) Source: Ville de Québec Document in the public domain (free of copyright) - Date: 1943-01-01