The Snapshots in Time Collection

Stacked Wooden Ammunition Crates Along Roadside Embankment, Luzon, Philippines, World War II

Stacked Wooden Ammunition Crates Along Roadside Embankment, Luzon, Philippines, World War II

Rows of wooden ammunition crates line a roadside embankment on Luzon, likely part of a supply or ordnance dump encountered during the U.S. campaign to liberate the Philippines in 1944-1945. Scenes like this were common as American forces advanced across the island, capturing, cataloguing, or destroying stockpiles of munitions left behind by retreating Japanese forces or established as forward supply points for the Allied advance. Project: 218437