Captioned 'N.C.O. Row, France Field C.Z.,' this photograph documents non-commissioned officers' family quarters at France Field, a key U.S. Army airfield guarding the Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal during the World War II era. Palm-lined streets and comfortable two-story housing reflect the substantial peacetime and wartime infrastructure the United States built throughout the Canal Zone to support the thousands of service members stationed there to protect this vital strategic waterway. Project: 218446