Generals

Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley, (left) President Truman's reparations envoy to Japan, and Brig. Gen. Hoffman, Provost Marshal of Tokyo, inspecting a miniature battleship of solid silver - one of the many valuable curios found among a vast treasure store of diamonds, gold, silver and platinum in the vaults of Tokyo's Bank of 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 Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Accompanied by high ranking officers, Edwin W. Pauley, President Truman's reparations envoy to Japan, recently inspected a vase from a Japanese treasure store of gold, silver, diamonds and platinum buried deep in the vaults of Tokyo's Bank of Japan. Above, Ambassador Pauley inspects a solid silver vase intricately decorated with gold and platinum figures. Maj. Gen. Chase, CG of the First Cavalry Division, looks on. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S.

American Legion National Commander Paul Griffith (left) shown with General Harry Vaughan, standing beside a bust. A photo in the background shows the signing of the Surrender of Japan on the U.S.S. Missouri. The bust is possibly Harry S. Truman.

General George J. Schulgen (left) and General Arnold (right) at General Lerch's garden party, Seoul, Korea. 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 George F. Schulgen (second from left) at a party in Beverly Hills, California. He was a member of Edwin Pauley's Reparations Mission.

Left to right: General Omar Bradley and American Legion Commander Paul H. Griffith shown at the microphone at a banquet.

President Harry S. Truman (center) and General Dwight D. Eisenhower (right), newly appointed Supreme NATO Commander, review the "Guard of Honor" at MATS Terminal, Washington National Airport as General Eisenhower prepares to leave for Europe for a three-week inspection of European defenses and for a series of conferences with North Atlantic Treaty countries. The other man is unidentified. (Original negative) From: Maurice Lamarre.

From left to right, General I. M. Chistiakov, Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley, and General Navidov at dinner in Pyongyang, Korea. 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 Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Former President Harry S. Truman (right) walks with an unidentified U.S. three-star general at a commissioning ceremony at the Marine Corps Air Station in Kane'ohe Bay, Hawaii.

Edwin Pauley (left) with General Dwight Eisenhower (sixth from left) in Tokyo.