Ground crewmen work around the open cockpit of a twin-boom fighter aircraft, likely a Lockheed P-38 Lightning, at a forward airstrip in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. A second aircraft of the same type is visible on the flight line in the background. Photographs like this one document the daily maintenance routines that kept Allied fighters flying against Japanese forces in one of the war's most remote and logistically challenging theaters, circa 1943-1945. Project: 218379