Cities and towns

Scene of bomb and fire damage in Tokyo, Japan. A wooden building stands amidst rubble. 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).

Japanese Army First Fuel Depot. General view of the old section of the plant showing the Badger Fractionating column in the background and product storage in the foreground. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission in Ssupingchieh, Manchuria. 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).

People shopping in the "Flea Market" area of outdoor merchant stalls 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 people walking through the "Flea Market" area of outdoor merchant stalls 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).

View of the plaza in front of the Shenyang Railway Hotel (also known as the Yamoto Hotel) in Mukden, Manchuria, with people walking past a large obelisk under construction. The Reparations Mission party stayed at the Shenyang Railway Hotel. 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).

Charles A. Karl, a member of the Reparations Mission led by Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley, with a sign in Chinese and English on the street 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).

Reparations Mission party led by Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley returning from an inspection trip in Mukden, Manchuria. No one is identified. 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).

Raphael Green (left), a member of the Reparations Mission led by Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley, shopping in the "Flea Market" 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).

From left to right, Lieutenant Lissner, Lieutenant Colonel Schenck, and Captain Ross, 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).

Unidentified Asian town photographed during Edwin W. Pauley's travels in Asia as a member of the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47, the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors.