Factories

Changchun, Manchuria, Manchurian government printing plant. one of six main printing rooms completely stripped of all machinery by Soviets. Photograph shows empty room and places where machinery taken out of floor. 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).

Changchun, Manchuria; Radio manufacturing plant. Plant stripped by Soviets of radio manufacturing equipment and machinery. 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).

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).

Japanese Army first fuel depot, low-temperature carbonization plant and gasometer. 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).

Japanese Army First Fuel Depot, gas producers and gasometers in the new plant. 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).

Japanese Army First Fuel Depot, Hydrogenation reaction for crude oil and residues. 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).

Synthetic Fuel Company, Ltd. Synthesis gas scrubbing and dust settling system from the Didier Furnaces-Fischer-Tropsch Process. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission in Chinchow, 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).

Gasometer for receiving the clean synthesis gas. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission in Chinchow, 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).

Crushing and screening house and belt conveyer to the Didier Furnaces. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission in Chinchow, 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).

Chinchow, Manchuria. View of Synthetic Fuel Company Coal charging mechanism on top of Didier Furnace for making synthetic fuels by the Fischer-Tropsch Process. 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).