This photograph, part of a negative series labeled 'Katha Trip - Major Turner,' documents the wrecked hull of a river steamer beached along the Irrawaddy River in Burma. Vessels of this type, many operated by the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company, were widely destroyed or scuttled during the 1942 Allied retreat and subsequent fighting of the Burma Campaign, part of the broader China-Burma-India Theater of World War II. Photographs like this one preserve the physical toll the war took on the region's vital river transportation network. Project: 218029