This Ken Norris illustration depicts the 498th Bomb Squadron, 345th Bombardment Group, executing a low-level parafrag strike on the Japanese airfield at Boram, New Guinea, on October 16, 1943. Flying a solid-nose 'strafer' variant B-25D Mitchell armed with forward-firing machine guns and 23-lb. parafragmentation bomb clusters, the squadron's aircraft that day destroyed nine Zero fighters in aerial combat and 23 more Japanese aircraft on the ground -- a signature tactic of the 345th's Fifth Air Force operations in the Southwest Pacific. Project: 218101