Reparations Staff at National Airport, Washington, D. C
Part of Staff, U.S. Reparations Mission to Japan, taken at National Airport, Washington, D.C., Nov. 1, 1945, when the Mission departed for the Orient. Left to right: Benjamin C. Olsen, William G. Johnston, H.D. Maxwell, Dorothy MacKnight, Charles Karl. 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 Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).