Factories

Manchu Rubber Company - Laioyang, Manchuria. View Number 1. Ground floor of tire manufacturing building from which heavy rubber processing equipment was removed during Soviet occupancy. 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).

Manchu Rubber Company in Laioyang, Manchuria. Interior of belt-making building of Manchu Rubber Company from which all equipment was removed during Soviet occupancy. 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).

Manchu Rubber Company in Laioyang, Manchuria. Interior of boiler house after removal of boilers during Soviet occupancy, October 12 to November 9, 1945. View Number 2. 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).

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries - Mukden, Manchuria. Welding shop from which all equipment was removed except for a portable transformer bank and a voltage regulator (both shown at left) during Soviet occupancy. Overhead cranes and track were also removed but track was found in sections outside the building. 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).

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Mukden, Manchuria. View in tank building shop built and equipped by Japanese at a late period in the war. Practically all machine tools and electrical equipment was removed during the period of Soviet occupancy. 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).

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries - Mukden, Manchuria. View of one of the machine shops from which all machine tools, seven cranes and all motors were removed during Soviet occupancy. (View Number 2). 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).

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Mukden, Manchuria. Foundry from which cranes and other machinery were removed during Soviet occupancy. A large electric furnace, including all accessory power equipment, was also removed. 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).

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Mukden, Manchuria. Forging shop from which all equipment except one large press and bed-plate of two other presses were removed during Soviet occupancy. Three large overhead cranes were also removed. 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).

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Mukden, Manchuria. View of one of the machine shops from which all machine tools, seven cranes and all motors were removed during Soviet occupancy. (View Number 1). 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).

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Mukden, Manchuria. View in heavy machine shops showing large face lathe (left center), one of few heavy machine tools remaining after Soviet occupancy. 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).