Retrieving air-dropped supplies, 1944 (c)

Photograph, World War Two, Far East, 1944 (c).

Soldiers of 81st West African Division gather supplies dropped by parachute into their jungle base. At one stage during the Burma campaign the division was so isolated that it was dependent on air supply for nine months.

From an album of 36 photographs compiled by Captain E B Mee (later Major), Royal Signals, 81st West African Division, Burma, 1944-1945.