Pilots and their wives; U.S. Reparations Mission
The pilots and their wives. Major Ward Cory, the Chief Pilot (back row, at right) and Major John Brown, the Assistant Chief Pilot (back row, center) are pictured. 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).