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Smiling Buddha near Bhamo, Burma, during WWII.
Statue of a deity in the Jain Temple, Calcutta, during WWII. Photo from J. E. Thomas.
Buddhist statues at Mogong, Burma, outside destroyed temple. During WWII.
Berla Temple in New Delhi during WWII. Photo from Walter E. Johnson.
A GI's personalized season's greetings from Burma, in 1944, with a bomb damaged temple dome as background. During WWII.
Flight Officer Clarke and Lt. Roland Speckman visit the Monkey Temple, during WWII. An unofficial guide accompanies them.
A temple near Karachi, India, during WWII.
View from Madras' St. Thomas Mount shows a verdant landscape of forests and fields, during WWII. A Christian church building is visible on the left. Photo from Glenn S. Hensley.
Frank Bond of the 40th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron squeezes through a small door in a massive gate of a Hindu temple in Madras, India, during WWII. Photo from Glenn S. Hensley.
Statue at Bhamo, Burma. In the CBI during WWII. Photo by Jesse D. Newman, 988th Signal Service Battalion.