Generals

Ambassador Edwin Pauley (center), General George F. Schulgen (right), and unidentified Koreans at a dinner in Seoul, Korea, during the U.S. Reparations tour. 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 Pauley (second from left) and General George F. Schulgen (third from left) are greeted by Army and Navy officials at Atsugi Field in Tokyo, Japan during the Reparations tour. 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 fishes at the Victory Guest Club in Frankfurt, Germany. 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).

Norman Cleaveland, Colonel William Mayer, General Lin Piao, and John P. Hurndall, members of Edwin Pauley's Reparations mission, in Harbin, Manchuria. 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).

Edwin Pauley (third from left) and Chinese Generals in Fushun, Manchuria during the U.S. Reparations Tour. 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).

President Harry S. Truman stands at the base of an airplane off-ramp with Brig. General R. Dinwiddie Groves (left), a group of civilians, and three Air Force personnel. The event, location, and date are unknown. From: Reserve Officers Association, U.S. Army

Former President Harry S. Truman, attending a Reserve Officers Association awards banquet, chats with several Reserve Officers. Left to right are: Lt. General Herbert B. Powell, Deputy C.G., Continental Army Command; Major General LeRoy Anderson, National Vice President for Army ROA; Harry S. Truman; and an unidentified Major General. From: Robert E. Adams, Research Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri.

Last meeting of Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson painting by E.D.B. Fabrina Julio. The original painting belongs to the Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana. Sent to President Harry S. Truman by David Finley, Director of the National Gallery of Art.

President Harry S. Truman speaks from a platform filled with dignitaries during the dedication of the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kentucky Dam in Gilbertsville, Kentucky. The only identified persons are General Harry Vaughan (visible over Truman's right shoulder) and Press Secretary Charles Ross (visible behind Truman).

Aboard the U. S. S. Williamsburg, from left to right, seated: Anthony Eden, Winston Churchill, President Harry S. Truman, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder, and Secretary of Defense Robert Lovett. Standing, left to right: Walter Gifford, General Omar N. Bradley, Sir Oliver Franks, Lord Cherwell, Lord Hastings L. Ismay, and W. Averell Harriman. They are on board the presidential yacht for a conference.