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Japanese Boys Working in Coal Mine in Hsian, Manchuria

2009-678
Accession Number
2009-678
7.5x4 inches
Black & White
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NAID 348550388
Related Collection
Pauley, Edwin W. Papers
Keywords
Boys
Mines and mineral resources
Reparations
HST Keywords
China - Manchuria
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Description
Outside view of buildings and Japanese boys, age 14 to 16, working at the coal mine in Hsian, Manchuria. These boys had been sent from Japan during the war as "Youthful Pioneers of 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).
Date(s)
ca.
June 1946