The Snapshots in Time Collection
Market Street Scene, China-Burma-India Theater
A bustling street market scene photographed by an Allied serviceman in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Uniformed men -- likely Chinese Nationalist troops -- pass shopfronts hung with drying laundry and garments, while local residents go about daily commerce. Photographs like this, taken outside the frame of combat, offer a rare window into civilian and military life along the CBI supply routes that sustained China's war effort against Japan. Project: 218379