This photograph, from a World War II China-Burma Theater collection, shows a civic statue standing amid a war-damaged cityscape. The skeletal remains of a nearby building, stripped to its structural framework, testify to the destruction wrought by years of conflict in China during the Japanese occupation and subsequent Allied campaigns. Such images, often taken by American servicemen serving in the CBI Theater, document both the resilience of local landmarks and the widespread devastation of urban infrastructure. Project: 218379