Airplanes

Left to Right: Commander Edelstein, Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley. The two men are sitting in a car prior to takeoff for Calcutta, India. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-1947 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley at airport. Picture taken at Los Angeles upon the Ambassador's return from the Orient, Dec. 17, 1945. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Ambassador Edwin Pauley and Mrs. Barbara Pauley. Picture taken at Los Angeles upon the Ambassador's return from the Orient, Dec. 17, 1945. Also shown (center) is Major William Westerfield, Chief Pilot for C-54, special mission plane. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Ambassador Edwin Pauley stands on the tarmac in front of an Air Transport Command airplane at a Los Angeles airport, upon his return from the Orient. Left to Right: Col. J.R. Gilchrist, Ambassador Edwin Pauley, Mrs. Barbara Pauley, Mrs. Claude Cameron. Photograph taken after the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley and part of staff of U.S. Reparations Mission to Japan. Picture taken at Los Angeles upon the Ambassador's return from the Orient. Left to right: Josiah E. DuBois, Col. J.R. Gilchrist, Ambassador Edwin Pauley, William Green Johnston, Dr. Luther Gulick, Stanley Joiner. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

American Legion National Commander Paul Griffith (far right) being greeted by two military officers as an unidentified Legion member looks on. Aircraft in the background.

Members of the Reparations Mission committee at Mines Field Airport, Los Angeles, California, before takeoff. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Damage to airplane factory due to B-29 attack in 1944. Outside of this and a small amount of damage in Anahan, the Reparations Mission led by Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley found no other evidence of B-29 raids. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

From left to right, Norm Taylor, Norman Cleaveland and Dick Johnston, members of Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley's Reparations Mission party, at airport in Mukden, Manchuria, just before boarding a plane for Changchun and Harbin. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Airplanes passing over the county courthouse in Bolivar, Missouri during ceremonies to dedicate a statue of Simon Bolivar. The ceremonies were attended by President Harry S. Truman and Venezuelan President Romulo Gallegos (not pictured).