Reparations

Truck production in destroyed plant in Tokyo after World War II. 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).

Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley with miscellaneous military men and others at unidentified airport by an Air Transport Command airplane. Ambassador Pauley is head of the Allied Reparations Committee, 1945-47.

Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley of Beverly Hills, California, during his stay in Tokyo, 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 the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors.)

U.S. Reparations Mission members in Room 233 of their office building in the Dai Ichi Building in Tokyo, Japan. Edwin Pauley pictured front and center. 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.)

Imperial Hotel, the billets of the U.S. Reparations Mission members in Tokyo, 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 the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors.)

Dai Ichi building, office building of the U.S. Reparations Mission in Tokyo, 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 the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors.)

U.S. Reparations Mission members before departing from Washington, D.C. to Tokyo, Japan. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley (not seen in photo) 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.)

The jet, "Charlie - 54 - Easy," that flew the U.S. Reparations Mission members Tokyo, 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 the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors.)

The jet, "Charlie - 54 - Easy," that flew the U.S. Reparations Mission members to Tokyo, 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 the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors.)

Mr. Sukyoon Chang (left) and Lieutenant Kyusal Lee(right), Korean interpreters who accompanied Mr. Pauley on trip to North 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).