This page from the 1979 'Air Apache Journal,' newsletter of the 345th Bombardment Group Association, blends veteran reunion news with wartime history. The 345th flew B-25 Mitchell bombers on low-level strafing and skip-bombing missions across the Southwest Pacific. The featured photograph shows the abandoned fuselage of 'Butch,' a 501st Bomb Squadron B-25 strafer left in the New Guinea jungle since the war and rediscovered at the '30-Mile Strip' in 1976 — a tangible reminder of the aircraft and airmen who once operated from these remote forward airstrips. Project: 218101