The Snapshots in Time Collection
Wrecked P-38 Lightning at Tingkawk Sakan, Burma — WWII CBI Theater Crash Investigation Photograph
This wartime photograph documents the burned wreckage of a U.S. Army Air Forces P-38 Lightning fighter following a crash at Tingkawk Sakan, an airstrip along the Ledo Road supply corridor in northern Burma. Personnel are shown examining the site as part of an official accident investigation, one of many such incidents recorded during Allied air operations in the China-Burma-India Theater in 1944. Project: 218030