Parties

Members of the armed services line up at a table outdoors for a buffet lunch given by the American Newspaper Women's Club of Washington, D.C., one of a series of Sunday afternoon parties sponsored by the Club as part of "Operation Homefront." From: Truman Home. From scrapbook on Operation Homefront.

Members of the armed services gather around a table to be served cake and beverage by volunteers at the American Newspaper Women's Club buffet held every Sunday afternoon in Washington, D.C., as part of "Operation Homefront." The back of the photo reads: "The American Newspaper Womens Club feel that only the best in food, silver linen, etc. is good enough for the parties they give each Sun. afternoon for the enlisted men, who take advantage of the free tours to Washington." From: Truman Home.

Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley (right) talks with an unidentified military officer at General Lerch's garden party in 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).

A group of unidentified men stand outside at General Lerch's garden party in 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).

Reparations Mission members at General Lerch's garden party in Seoul, Korea. Several groups of unidentified people, some in military uniform, stand outside. 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 (second from right) and military officers at General Lerch's garden party in 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).

Dr. Ernest Klein (left) and Ted Braun (right), members of the Reparation Commission, at a party in Beverly Hills, California. 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).

From left to right, Mr. Swift, Martin Bennett, and H. M. Thorne, members of the Reparations Mission, look at a camera at a party in Beverly Hills, California. 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.

Unidentified members of the U.S. military at a cocktail party.