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Coal Hydrogenation Research Institute - Mukden, Manchuria

2009-746
Accession Number
2009-746
8x10 inches (21x26 cm)
Black & White
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NAID 348550536
Related Collection
Pauley, Edwin W. Papers
Keywords
Factories
Reparations
HST Keywords
China - Manchuria
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Credit:
Marlin Fenical
U.S. Army Signal Corps

Harry S. Truman Library & Museum.

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Description
Coal Hydrogenation Research Institute in Mukden, Manchuria. Steel-work for fractionating column which was removed during Soviet occupancy. This plant was used for the development of hydrogenation processes for the production of liquid fuels from Fushun Shale fractions. All the equipment of this plant, except storage tanks, was removed. 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)
June 16, 1946