MAKE A MEME
View Large Image
| View Original: | RG-208-AA-158-G-001.tif (6093x6281) | |||
| Download: | Original | Medium | Small | Thumb |
| Courtesy of: | commons.wikimedia.org | More Like This | ||
| Keywords: RG-208-AA-158-G-001.tif Photograph en East has met west in Ceylon and in the twain are joined a common effort against the Japanese Taken at a British Fleet Air Arm base by a U S Navy photographer during a visit of a Navy carrier to the Indian waters to participate in combined operations against the Jap-held East Indies these photographs portray the seeming anachronism of the war in Ceylon --where the Old World helps the New towards Victory This gesture means 'Stop ' in any language A Ceylon Chovkidar watchman in a red helmet and blue uniform bars visitors to the base until credentials are checked 1944-07-21 institution National Archives and Records Administration Official U S Navy Photograph author RG-208-AA-158-G 001 <gallery> Ceylon-old-world-aids-the-war-RG-208-AA-158-G-001 jpg jpg </gallery> PD-USGov-FSA PD-USGov-Military-Navy NARA-cooperation Uploaded with UploadWizard Files from NARA ExtravaSCANza Sri Lanka in the 1940s Soldiers of Sri Lanka | ||||