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Calcutta, India; two Indian waiters in white coats and hats with dark sashes at Officers' Club, Dum Dum Airport. 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).

Calcutta, India. The British "gas up" 9066. Dum Dum Airport. 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).

Part of Staff, U.S. Reparations Mission to Japan, taken at National Airport, Washington, D.C., Nov. 1, 1945, when the Mission departed for the Orient. Left to right: Benjamin C. Olsen, William G. Johnston, H.D. Maxwell, Dorothy MacKnight, Charles Karl. 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).

Left to right: Admiral John Henry Towers, Commander, 5th Fleet; Artemus L. Gates, Undersecretary of the Navy; Major General R. C. Marshall, Acting Chief of Staff; and Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley arrive at Atsungi Airfield in Tokyo, Japan and are greeted by high Navy and Army officials. 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). Same as 2009-1386.

Reparations Mission party arrives at Atsugi Airport, Tokyo, Japan. Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley (second from left with his back to the camera) stands with a group of unidentified military personnel. 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).

Unidentified members of the Reparations Mission arrive at Atsugi Airport, Tokyo, Japan. 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).

Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley (second from right) stands outside a military plane with unidentified military personnel and another civilian, upon his arrival at Atsugi Airport, Tokyo, Japan. 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).

Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley (standing with his side to the camera, wearing dark hat) stands outside a military plane, conversing with unidentified military personnel upon his arrival at Atsugi Airport, Tokyo, Japan. 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).

Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley (standing with his side to the camera) talks with unidentified military personnel upon his arrival at Hickam Field, Hawaii. 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).

Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley (second from right in circle of four in center of photograph) talks with three unidentified men upon his arrival at Hickam Field, Hawaii. 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).