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Calcutta

Sgt. Bob Travis Keagle shows his camera to a rickshaw walla in Calcutta, India, in 1944. 40th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron. Photo from Robert Travis Keagle.
Burning ghats at Calcutta during WWII.
Aerial view of 142nd General Hospital, Calcutta, during WWII, 1945.
Jinx Falkenburg getting shoe fitted in Calcutta, India, in 1944 or 1945, USO troupe.
Cardinal Spellman and General Hanley chat at Hastings Mill, India, near Hooghly River, during WWII.
GIs in train from Bombay to Calcutta in 1944, talk to local men in India. Photo by Syd Greenberg.
A Calcutta traffic policeman directs traffic from his raised stand from under a canopy. Photo from Samuel J. Louff.
U.S. Army Camp Brabourne in Calcutta ruing WWII. Radio station VU2ZU. Photo by E. L. R. 1944-45.
A Calcutta mountie takes a moment to pose for a souvenir snapshot by J. F. Thomas. During WWII.
British Armstrong Whitworth Ensign "Empyrean" aircraft at the Bengal Air Depot, Calcutta, during WWII. Photo from George Skinner.