Soldiers

Edwin Pauley (third from left) looks at a Soviet Sergeant's medals in North 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).

First Cavalry Division Review at Tokyo with Ambassador Edwin Pauley (at right in tank) during the 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).

Hermann Goering (at left in first row) at the War Crimes Trials in Nurnberg, 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).

Hermann Goering (left in first row) at the War Crimes Trials in Nurnberg, 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).

Edwin Pauley (right) with an MP guard in Nuremberg. 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).

Earl L. Shaner, Martin T. Bennett, Edwin Pauley, Marshall, and Sgt. John Matles in Calcutta, India, 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).

Photograph furnished by Chinese officials during the U.S. Reparations tour depicts Soviet soldiers removing equipment in 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).

Staff of Edwin Pauley's Reparations mission and Chinese Nationalist soldiers who took an iron mine from the Communists long enough for an inspection. 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 reviews the guard 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).

Portrait of Lieutenant Lorain H. Cunningham, a World War One friend of Harry S. Truman. From an album of Lorain Cunningham.