A column of pack mules winds along a tree-lined road beside an irrigation canal somewhere in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. With few roads capable of supporting motor transport in this mountainous, monsoon-prone region, Allied forces depended heavily on mule and pack-animal trains to move ammunition, food, and equipment in support of the campaign to reopen the Burma Road and supply Chinese and American forces fighting the Japanese in the region. Project: 218083