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Pauley, Towers, Gates, and Marshall at Atsugi Airfield, Japan

2009-1386
Accession Number
2009-1386
4x5 inches (10x13 cm)
Black & White
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NAID 348546328
Related Collection
Pauley, Edwin W. Papers
Keywords
Ambassadors
Armed forces officers
Naval officers
Reparations
HST Keywords
Airports - Atsugi; Japan - Honshu
People Pictured
Pauley, Edwin W. (Edwin Wendell), 1903-1981
Gates, Artemus L. (Artemus Lamb), 1895-1976
Marshall, R. C.
Towers, John H. (John Henry), 1885-1955
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Credit:
Sochurek
U.S. Army Signal Corps

Harry S. Truman Library & Museum.

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Description
From left to right, Admiral John Henry Towers, Commander, 5th Fleet; Artemus L. Gates, Under-secretary of the Navy; Major General R. C. Marshall, Acting Chief of Staff; and Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley at Atsugi Airfield, Honshu, Japan. Ambassador Pauley arrived in Japan to discuss reparations payments and policy. He was the personal representative of President Harry S. Truman in this regard. 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. Same as 2009-07.
Date(s)
November 13, 1945