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This volume contains the papers and minutes of the Combined Chiefs of Staff (CCS) meetings at the Sextant and Eureka Conferences. Five plenary meetings were held during the Sextant Conference between November 23 and December 6, 1943. These were held at the Villa Kirk and were attended by both President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Also in attendance at the first of these sessions was a Chinese delegation headed by Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. In addition, the conference held the 127th through 138th meetings of the CCS at Mena House (November 22 to December 7, 1943). General Dwight D. Eisenhower was present at one of these sessions. The SEXTANT Conference volume also includes minutes of the EURKEA Conference held in the Russian Legation in Tehran, Iran. The parties involved were the U.S., Great Britain, and the U.S.S.R. The Conference consisted of three plenary sessions (November 28, 29 and 30, 1943) attended by President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, and Marshal Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union; and one military conference (November 29, 1943) attended by military officials of the three countries. Discussions included a general survey of the war and the Soviet strategic concept of the war in Europe.