The Snapshots in Time Collection

Wooden Mailing Crate Addressed by Major Charles A. Koter, 9th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron, CBI Theater, WWII

Wooden Mailing Crate Addressed by Major Charles A. Koter, 9th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron, CBI Theater, WWII

This weathered wooden crate once carried personal effects and photographic film home from the China-Burma-India theater, hand-addressed by Major Charles A. Koter of the 9th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron to a recipient in Elmhurst, New York. The crate itself is a rare surviving piece of wartime mail infrastructure and the likely namesake source of this photograph collection. Project: 218479