Though filed within the China-Burma-India theater collection, this vividly deteriorated color negative captures a scene from the American home front: an Army band marching through a downtown street lined with cheering civilians. Parades such as this were common throughout the war years, marking troop departures, war bond drives, and homecomings, and reflect the close bond between military units and the communities that supported them. The damage visible in the image - staining and color separation from age - is itself part of the historical record, a physical trace of the negative's decades in storage. Project: 218073