Airplanes

Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes (on steps) met at Berlin, on his petroleum trip, by General Oliver Patton Echols (shaking hands with Ickes). Standing in background are two unidentified soldiers and Captain Thomas Higginson (between Ickes and Echols).

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.)

Raymond Ickes and Secretary Harold L. Ickes on plane. Secretary Ickes is going to Europe to explore the petroleum situation.

Group of men on plane. From left to right (first row only): W.A. Jones and George Hill. Others unidentified.

Group of men standing outside a plane. Petroleum Administrator Ralph K. Davies on the far left. All others unidentified.

Captain Marlin E. Fenical, War Department Photographer and Member of the U.S. Reparations Mission upon arrival at Washington National Airport. 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).

Major Ward Cory; Chief Pilot. 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).

Major John Brown, the Assistant Chief Pilot pictured. 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).