The Snapshots in Time Collection

Album Caption Page - "Shanghai, China, October 1947" (VR-6 Photo Album)

Album Caption Page - "Shanghai, China, October 1947" (VR-6 Photo Album)

A handwritten caption page from a Naval Air Transport Squadron (VR-6) photo album reads simply, "Shanghai, China, October 1947." Pages like this once introduced snapshots taken by Navy air transport crews during stopovers across the postwar Pacific, documenting routine but historically significant travel through one of Asia's great port cities in the years just before the Chinese Communist Revolution. Project: 218206