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Reparations Mission Party at Wake Island

2009-277
Accession Number
2009-277
4.5x4.5 inches
Black & White
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NAID 348548544
Related Collection
Pauley, Edwin W. Papers
Keywords
Armed forces officers
Reparations
HST Keywords
Wake Island
People Pictured
Olsen, Benjamin C.
Fenical, Marlin E. (Marlin Edward), 1907-1983
Matles, John
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Description
From left to right: Ben Olsen, John Matles, Marlin Fenical, and their driver, members of the Reparations Mission, stand in front of the Officers Mess at Wake Island. 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).
Date(s)
May 9, 1946