Boyd, William R. (William Rufus), d. 1959

Group sitting around table in private quarters on Hitler's yacht. From left to right: Stanley Richardson; George A. Hill, Jr.; William R. Boyd, Jr.; W. Alton Jones; and Brigadier General Owen Summers. Yacht was a gift by the city of Cologne and was captured intact by U.S. Army at Wiesbaden.

Men standing outside I.G. Farben office building which housed General Dwight D. Eisenhower's Headquarters. From left to right: George A. Hill, Jr. (Defense Supply Corporation); W. Alton Jones; and William R. Boyd, Jr.

Group of petroleum people with General Dwight D. Eisenhower in his office. From front to back in circle: R.E Hardwicke; George A. Hill, Jr.; William R. Boyd, Jr.; Brigadier General Owen Summers; Petroleum Administrator Ralph K. Davies; Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes; W. Alton Jones; and General Dwight D. Eisenhower.

General Walter Bedell Smith's dinner at Victory Guest House in Frankfurt. Around the table from left to right, back to front: Brigadier General Owen Summers; George A. Hill, Jr.; General Arthur Seymor Nevins; W. Alton Jones; R.E. Hardwicke; Dr. Joseph E. Pogue; General Harold Roe Bull (behind Dr. Pogue's head); Elaine Owens; Captain Thomas Higginson; William R. Boyd, Jr.; Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes; Sam Botsford; Stanley Richardson; General Thomas Jefferson Davis. Some of these individuals are with the petroleum group visiting Europe.

General Walter Bedell Smith's dinner at Victory Guest House in Frankfurt, Germany. From Left to right at table: William R. Boyd, Jr.; Secretary Harold L. Ickes; and General Walter Bedell Smith. Other two men unidentified.

Group of petroleum and government men on steps of Victory Guest House in Frankfurt, Germany. From left to right: Dr. Joseph E. Pogue; unidentified guard; William R. Boyd, Jr. (back); W. Alton Jones (front); Stanley Richardson; Ralph T. Zook; George A. Hill; R.E. Hardwicke; and unidentified guard.

Group of people standing by plane at Frankfurt Airport. From left to right: Brigadier General Owen Summers; Lieutenant Charles A. Neyhart; Elaine Owens; Captain A.F. Story; Ralph T. Zook; Captain Paul W. Meinar; Dr. Joseph E. Pogue; Sergeant William G. Ledger; George A. Hill, Jr.; Captain Harold N. Learned; Ellen Downes; Petroleum Administrator Ralph K. Davies; Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes; Gordon Sessions; William R. Boyd, Jr.; R.E. Hardwicke; W. Alton Jones; Sam Botsford; and Captain Thomas Higginson.

Group of people standing on plane stairs at Paris Airport. From top to bottom, left to right: Ellen Downes; Elaine Owens; Gordon Sessions; Ralph K. Davies; Secretary Harold L. Ickes; R.E Hardwicke; William R. Boyd, Jr.; W. Alton Jones; George A. Hill, Jr.; Ralph T. Zook; Sam Botsford; Stanley Richardson; Dr. Joseph E. Pogue and Colonel William Bodine, U.S. Army, Paris Visitors Bureau.

Ralph K. Davies (left), Deputy Petroleum Administrator for war, and William R. Boyd, Jr. (right), Chairman of the Petroleum Industry War Council, carrying telegrams from the Executive office of the White House regarding the progress of the Rubber Stockpile Drice which they and Secretary Harold Ickes have just exhibited to the President.

Ralph K. Davies (left), Deputy Petroleum Administrator for war, and William R. Boyd, Jr. (right), Chairman of the Petroleum Industry War Council, carrying telegrams from the Executive office of the White House regarding the progress of the Rubber Stockpile Drice which they and Secretary Harold Ickes have just exhibited to the President.