The Snapshots in Time Collection

Chinese Military/Institutional Compound with Flagpole and Parade Ground, China-Burma-India Theater Archive

Chinese Military/Institutional Compound with Flagpole and Parade Ground, China-Burma-India Theater Archive

A long tile-roofed compound, likely a Chinese military or institutional facility, stands behind an open parade ground marked with a central flagpole in this photograph from the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Such compounds supported Allied and Chinese Nationalist forces cooperating against Japanese occupation in the region. Project: 218379