The Snapshots in Time Collection

Twin-Spired Cathedral and City Street, Western Pacific Naval Air Transport Squadron Album

Twin-Spired Cathedral and City Street, Western Pacific Naval Air Transport Squadron Album

This street scene, preserved in a Navy photo album associated with Naval Air Transport Squadron VR-6 at Agana, Guam, shows a European-style twin-towered cathedral rising above a city street lined with pedestrians and a pull-cart. Though labeled as part of a 'Manila' album, the architecture and street life point instead to a Western Pacific treaty port such as Qingdao, China, one of many stops for Navy transport crews ferrying personnel and cargo across the Pacific in the years following World War II. Project: 218207