This wartime photograph captures a serviceman crossing a locally-built wire suspension footbridge over a river somewhere in the China-Burma-India theater during World War II. Such improvised bridges were a common feature of the rugged, mountainous terrain traversed by Allied troops supporting the war effort in this theater, including operations tied to the Ledo Road and Burma Road supply lines. Images like this, drawn from the KOTEC China-Burma-India collection, document the everyday challenges of movement and logistics faced by American and Allied personnel far from established infrastructure. Project: 218066