Factories

Dorr Thickener at Concentration Plant at Manchuria Iron and Steel Company, Anshan, Manchuria. The drive mechanism has been removed by the Soviets during occupation. 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).

Coal tar distillation plant at Manchuria Iron and Steel Company, Anshan, Manchuria. Pumps and fractionating towers were removed by Soviets during occupation. Note the props used to support lifting equipment. 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).

Damaged blast furnaces at Manchuria Iron and Steel Company, Anshan, 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).

Main repair shop of Manchuria Iron and Steel Company at Anshan, Manchuria. A railroad spur was laid in one building for direct loading of heavy machine tools. 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 from a hill overlooking the city of Anshan, Manchuria. The Manchurian Iron and Steel Company plant is on the skyline. 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 Manchuria Iron and Steel Works. The sintering plant is on the right, blast furnaces in the distance. 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).

Dick Johnston standing inside a roasting kiln in the Sponge Iron Plant at Manchu Iron Works in Anshan, 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).

South Manchurian Railway Company Oil Shale Plant in Fushun, Manchuria. View of a battery of retorts for distilling the oil from the shale. 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 (right) and an unidentified Chinese man inspect a doorway in an interior wall at the Toyo Tire and Rubber Company in Mukden, Manchuria. The doorway was knocked out on one side to enlarge it for the removal of industrial equipment during the Soviet occupation. 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).

Soviet soldiers in the process of removing heavy equipment from a factory in Manchuria. Picture copied from photo furnished by Chinese authorities in Manchuria to the U.S. Reparations Mission. 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).