A World War II airman poses for an informal snapshot beside stacked aerial ordnance on a bomb-loading cart at a forward Pacific airfield. Dressed in a leather A-2 flight jacket and parachute harness, with a parachute pack in hand, he stands near the tail of a twin-boom fighter aircraft. Photographs such as this, casual portraits taken between missions, are common in personal albums kept by ground and air crew serving with bomber and fighter groups in the Pacific, including units based on Ie Shima. Project: 218227