An American airman poses on his jeep, marked "43 AAF," outside a traditional tile-roofed building repurposed as part of a U.S. air base in China. Photographs like this document the improvised nature of American installations in the China-Burma-India Theater, where existing local structures were often adapted to support the air campaign against Japan, including the vital resupply route over the Himalayas known as "The Hump." Project: 218381