Lerch, Archer L. (Archer Lynn), 1894-1947

Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley holds a Korean press conference in the Throne Room of the Capitol Building. Seated from left to right, Major General Archer Lerch, Ambassador Edwin Pauley, Lieutenant General J. R. Hodge, and Brigadier General George J. Schulgen. Unidentified military officials are seated in a row behind Pauley. Reporters are seated, taking notes, on the other sides of the table. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S.

General John Hodge (left), Commanding Officer of U.S. forces in Korea, and General Archer Lerch during the Reparations tour. 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).

General Archer Lerch and Edwin Pauley (right) in Korea during the Reparations tour. 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).