The Snapshots in Time Collection
Local Dance Performance Before Mixed Audience of Villagers and US Servicemen, Dinjan Area, CBI Theater, WWII
American servicemen stationed at Dinjan, Assam, a key airbase supplying the 'Hump' airlift to China, watch a local folk dance performance alongside village families. Such cultural exchanges were common during the WWII China-Burma-India campaign, as American troops shared daily life with the diverse peoples of the India-Burma-Tibet border region. Project: 218053