Fortification

Columns at the Agra Fort located in Agra, India. The photograph was taken during a trip to the Far East by United States Ambassador-at-Large Philip C. Jessup and party.

Full view of the Spin-Wam Fort located in Waziristan (part of Pakistan). Identified on the back of the photograph as: "Spin-wam Fort in Waziristan. It has an important situation on Afghanistan border. A typical fort in the North West frontier province - India.

From left to right, President Harry S. Truman, Major General Harry Vaughan, Admiral William D. Leahy, and William D. Hassett at Fort Jefferson National Monument. President Truman visited Fort Jefferson during his vacation trip to Key West, Florida. Others are unidentified.

Outside view of jute box factory and pillbox fortification in Liaoyang, 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).

Pillbox fortification on railroad bridge in Liaoyang, Manchuria. The Reparations Mission party crossed the bridge by jeep. 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).

John Matles, member of Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley's Reparations Mission party, atop the Pillbox fortification at Mukden, 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).

Two unidentified members of Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley's party standing in front of the Pillbox fortification outside Mukden, 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).

Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley outside Pillbox in Mukden, 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).

Some of the old forts in the harbor, probably in France. From an album of Lorain H. Cunningham, who served in the 129th Field Artillery during World War I and was a friend of Harry S. Truman.

Ruins of Fort Abaucourt in France showing wire entanglement in foreground. From an album of Lorain H. Cunningham, who served in the 129th Field Artillery during World War I and was a friend of Harry S. Truman.