The Snapshots in Time Collection

Handwritten Diary/Log Page: Final Leg of River Voyage, Khulna to Calcutta, 9-12 April 1945

Handwritten Diary/Log Page: Final Leg of River Voyage, Khulna to Calcutta, 9-12 April 1945

The concluding page of a handwritten river-transport diary, tracing the final leg of a voyage from Khulna through the Sundarbans to Calcutta in April 1945. The diarist's arrival and debarkation at the Tea Transit Sheds mark the end of a journey that illustrates the vital, labor-intensive work of Inland Water Transport crews supplying Allied forces in the China-Burma-India Theater. Project: 218594