This candid photograph, preserved in a photo album belonging to a member of Naval Air Transport Squadron VR-6 (based at Agana, Guam), depicts a bustling ferry landing, likely in Shanghai, China, during the late 1940s. Two numbered passenger ferries are moored at the pier while civilians and service personnel wait nearby. VR-6 flew long-range transport routes across the Pacific in the years following World War II, and images such as this offer a glimpse of the port cities its aircrews visited during the early postwar era, when American military transport aviation helped link the United States to a rapidly changing Asia. Project: 218206