Armed forces officers

General Dwight D. Eisenhower (second from left, front row), with three unidentified military officials, reviews the First Cavalry Division, Imperial Grounds, 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 left) converses with two unidentified military officials at review of First Cavalry Division, Imperial Grounds, 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).

General Dwight D. Eisenhower entering a car at a review of the First Cavalry Division, Imperial Grounds, Tokyo, Japan. A soldier salutes him. 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 (third from left) stands with unidentified military officials at a review of the First Cavalry Division, Imperial Grounds, 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).

General Douglas MacArthur leaving the Dai Ichi Building in 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).

From left to right, General Douglas MacArthur, Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley, and Colonel Wheeler descend the front steps as they leave the Dai Ichi Building in 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).

Colonel William Mayer, member of Reparations Mission, stands in swimming pool in the gardens at the Mitsui Club where the Reparations Mission stayed in 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).

Sergeant John Matles (left) and Captain Marlin Fenical (right) stand in front of the American Embassy in 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).

From left to right: Ben Olsen, John Matles, Marlin Fenical, and their driver, members of the Reparations Mission, stand in front of the Officers Mess at Wake Island. 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).

From left to right, Stephen Pauley, Sergeant John Matles, and Susan Pauley in Beverly Hills, California. Photograph taken at the time of 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).