This candid photograph, likely taken during World War II in the Burma/China-Burma-India theater, shows a group of Allied servicemen consulting a field map. Head-shaving was a practice sometimes adopted by troops operating in the tropical jungle environment for hygiene and heat management. Scenes such as this, informal and unposed, illustrate the constant planning and route-finding that underpinned operations in the difficult terrain of the CBI theater. Project: 218087