Edwin Pauley Meets H. D. Maxwell at Atsugi Airfield in Japan
Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley (left), President Harry S. Truman's personal representative on reparations, being greeted upon his arrival at Atsugi Airfield, Honshu, Japan, by H. D. Maxwell, Special Assistant and Chief of Staff to Ambassador Pauley. 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.