The Snapshots in Time Collection
Aerial View of Damaged River Craft Along a Burmese Riverbank -- CBI Theater, WWII
Photographed from the wing of a U.S. aircraft, this image shows a Burmese riverbank littered with damaged and sunken native watercraft -- evidence of Allied air strikes against Japanese river-borne supply lines during the China-Burma-India campaign. Such interdiction missions targeted the small boats and junks the Japanese relied on to move troops and materiel through Burma's dense river network in 1944-1945. Project: 218058