Airports

Members of the Reparations Mission arrive at Hickam Field, Hawaii. Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley, second full figure from the right, is standing with his back to the camera, talking with an unidentified man. 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).

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).

Thorne says goodbye to Chinese Communists and Cleaveland does the same to Soviet Tass correspondent as Mission leaves Harbin. 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).

Dick Johnston (left) and Thorne (right), ready for take-off for Harbin from airport in Mukden, Manchuria. 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).

Chinese nationalists and part of the Pauley Reparations Mission party at Peiling Airport in Mukden, Manchuria. 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).

Norm Taylor (left) and Dr. Shao (right), part of Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley's Reparations Mission party, at the airport in Mukden, Manchuria. Pauley notes Shao was "the Mission's best guide throughout Manchuria." 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 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).

Ambassador Edwin Pauley and Barbara "Bobbe" Pauley (at right) and the crew of the C-54, special Mission plane. Next to Ambassador Pauley in the front 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).

President Harry S. Truman (center) and General Dwight D. Eisenhower (right), newly appointed Supreme NATO Commander, review the "Guard of Honor" at MATS Terminal, Washington National Airport as General Eisenhower prepares to leave for Europe for a three-week inspection of European defenses and for a series of conferences with North Atlantic Treaty countries. The other man is unidentified. (Original negative) From: Maurice Lamarre.

President Harry S. Truman (right) and President Romulo Gallegos of Venezuela (left) at the podium during a ceremony at the airport upon the arrival of President Gallegos for a visit to the United States. The presidential airplane "Independence" is in the background. Admiral William Leahy is to the left of the podium. Others are unidentified.