Armed forces officers

Portrait of General J. Lawton Collins, Army Chief of Staff, who met with President Harry S. Truman on October 4, 1949, at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, when the President visited this installation to review airborne maneuvers as well as to review 20,000 troops and inspect new artillery weapons.

First Sgt. John Matles. 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).

Lt. John G. Reifsnider. 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).

Lt. (jg) Paul H. Elicker. 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).

First Lt. George B. Oujevolk. 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).

Lt. Col. Gail S. Carter, Santa Fe, New Mexico, a member of the U.S. Reparations Mission to 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.)

Jack Gilchrist and Gail Carter, Members of the U.S. Reparations Mission to 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.)

H.D. Maxwell and Col. J. R. Gilchrist, members of the U.S. Reparations Mission, at Waikiki Beach, 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.)

Sgt. John Matles and Marlin Fenical on porch of Shepherd Hotel in Cairo, Egypt. 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).

Col. J. R. Gilchrist, of Washington, D.C., Member of the U.S. Reparations Mission to 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.)