Reparations

Number 2 open-hearth plant at Manchuria Iron and Steel Company, Anshan, Manchuria. Heavy Soviet removals of equipment during occupation reduced the productive capacity of this unit to zero. 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).

Dorr Thickener at Concentration Plant at Manchuria Iron and Steel Company, Anshan, Manchuria. The drive mechanism has been removed by the Soviets during occupation. 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).

Coal tar distillation plant at Manchuria Iron and Steel Company, Anshan, Manchuria. Pumps and fractionating towers were removed by Soviets during occupation. Note the props used to support lifting equipment. 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).

Damaged blast furnaces at Manchuria Iron and Steel Company, Anshan, Manchuria. 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).

Main repair shop of Manchuria Iron and Steel Company at Anshan, Manchuria. A railroad spur was laid in one building for direct loading of heavy machine tools. 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).

View from a hill overlooking the city of Anshan, Manchuria. The Manchurian Iron and Steel Company plant is on the skyline. 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).

View of Manchuria Iron and Steel Works. The sintering plant is on the right, blast furnaces in the distance. 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).

Locomotives lined up on railroad tracks in yard at Anshan Numata Machinery Company. This plan built narrow gauge steam locomotives and dump cars used for mining and construction work. The shops were partially stripped by Chinese Communists and mobs. The Soviets removed 300 tons of unfabricated steel but left eight new locomotives untouched. 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 Taylor, member of the Reparations Mission, displays a drum of American-made oil at Japanese sub-station at Anshan, Manchuria. Rusted oil drums stand and lay in the grass in front of a power grid. A group of unidentified people stands in the background. 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 Chinese cook and help who cared for the Reparations Mission party at Anshan, Manchuria. 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).