The Snapshots in Time Collection

Crowd of Local Civilians with Sadhu (Hindu Holy Man), China-Burma-India Theater, WWII Era

Crowd of Local Civilians with Sadhu (Hindu Holy Man), China-Burma-India Theater, WWII Era

A crowd of local villagers, including a bare-chested sadhu marked with sacred ash, gathers on a hillside beneath towering monsoon clouds. Photographs like this one, taken by American servicemen stationed in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II, document the people and cultures they encountered far from the front lines of the war. Project: 218104