Photographed from the deck of a US Navy vessel during the 1930s, this view captures a river confluence in China marked by a stone war memorial obelisk set on a small point of land, with the colonial-era buildings of a foreign concession bund in the background. Images like this were taken by American sailors serving with the Yangtze Patrol, the US Navy's gunboat force that protected American interests and citizens in China during the interwar period, prior to the outbreak of the Pacific War. Project: 218176