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Group of petroleum people with General Dwight D. Eisenhower in his office. From front to back in circle: R.E Hardwicke; George A. Hill, Jr.; William R. Boyd, Jr.; Brigadier General Owen Summers; Petroleum Administrator Ralph K. Davies; Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes; W. Alton Jones; and General Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Group of people in General Dwight D. Eisenhower's office. From left to right: Secretary Harold L. Ickes; Captain Thomas Higginson; Brigadier General Owen Summers; and Ralph K. Davies.

Group of people with General Dwight D. Eisenhower in his office. From front to back, left to right: W. Alton Jones; Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes; General Dwight D. Eisenhower; Ralph T. Zook; Gordon Sessions; Sam Botsford; and Elaine Owens. The visit by the group to Europe is probably related to the petroleum situation.

General Walter Bedell Smith's dinner at Victory House in Frankfurt. Around table starting at left, front: Brigadier General Owen Summers; W. Alton Jones; Dr. Joseph E. Pogue; Captain Thomas Higginson; Secretary Harold L. Ickes; General Walter Bedell Smith; Petroleum Administrator Ralph K. Davies (half hidden); Ellen Downes; Sam Botsford; General Willard Stewart Paul (half hidden); Stanley Richardson; Gordon Sessions (half hidden); General Thomas Jefferson Davis; unidentified General; and Ralph T. Zook.

General Walter Bedell Smith's dinner at Victory Guest House in Frankfurt. Around the table from left to right, back to front: Brigadier General Owen Summers; George A. Hill, Jr.; General Arthur Seymor Nevins; W. Alton Jones; R.E. Hardwicke; Dr. Joseph E. Pogue; General Harold Roe Bull (behind Dr. Pogue's head); Elaine Owens; Captain Thomas Higginson; William R. Boyd, Jr.; Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes; Sam Botsford; Stanley Richardson; General Thomas Jefferson Davis. Some of these individuals are with the petroleum group visiting Europe.

Group of petroleum and government men on steps of Victory Guest House in Frankfurt, Germany. From left to right: Dr. Joseph E. Pogue; unidentified guard; William R. Boyd, Jr. (back); W. Alton Jones (front); Stanley Richardson; Ralph T. Zook; George A. Hill; R.E. Hardwicke; and unidentified guard.

From left to right W. Alton Jones; Captain Thomas Higginson; Brigadier General Owen Summers; Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes standing by plane at Frankfurt Airport.

Group of people standing by plane at Frankfurt Airport. From left to right: Brigadier General Owen Summers; Lieutenant Charles A. Neyhart; Elaine Owens; Captain A.F. Story; Ralph T. Zook; Captain Paul W. Meinar; Dr. Joseph E. Pogue; Sergeant William G. Ledger; George A. Hill, Jr.; Captain Harold N. Learned; Ellen Downes; Petroleum Administrator Ralph K. Davies; Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes; Gordon Sessions; William R. Boyd, Jr.; R.E. Hardwicke; W. Alton Jones; Sam Botsford; and Captain Thomas Higginson.

Crew of C-54 standing on plane stairs. From top to bottom, left to right: Captain A.F. Story, pilot; Captain Paul W. Meinar, pilot; Sergeant Joseph W. Pinto, engineer; Sergeant Joseph H Walsh, radio operator; Lieutenant Charles A. Neyhart, co-pilot; Captain Harold N. Learned, navigator; Sergeant William G. Ledger, flight clerk; and Sergeant Guido J. Costello, engineer. (They brought Ralph K. Davies and the petroleum group to Europe.)

Group of people standing on plane stairs at Paris Airport. From top to bottom, left to right: Ellen Downes; Elaine Owens; Gordon Sessions; Ralph K. Davies; Secretary Harold L. Ickes; R.E Hardwicke; William R. Boyd, Jr.; W. Alton Jones; George A. Hill, Jr.; Ralph T. Zook; Sam Botsford; Stanley Richardson; Dr. Joseph E. Pogue and Colonel William Bodine, U.S. Army, Paris Visitors Bureau.