Airplanes

Unidentified man at Kansas City ceremony regarding presentation of the airplane "Spirit of Kansas City" to Ecuador by the Kansas City Women's Commission for International Relations and Trade.

Presidential airplane of President Harry S. Truman, the "Independence," in flight over unknown location.

Airplane crew 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).

Colonel O'Keefe and Edwin Pauley upon Pauley's return to Washington. 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).

A. B. Einig (left) and Earl L. Shaner, apparently aboard an airplane. 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).

Edwin Pauley at Tullin Airfield in Vienna, Austria. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. 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).

Edwin Pauley, in airplane, arrives at Tullin Field from Vienna during the U.S. Reparations Mission. 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).

A member of the U.S. Reparations Mission arrives at Tullin Field from Vienna (dog is nearby). 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).

A member of the U.S. Reparations Mission arrives at Tullin Field from Vienna. 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).

ATC-C54E 49066 at Atsugi Field, Tokyo, Japan. Taken during the Pauley Reparations Tour. 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).