The aftermath of a fierce Pacific storm is visible in this photograph from the 345th Bombardment Group's collection, taken on Ie Shima near Okinawa. Flattened tents and shattered wooden frames lie strewn across a flooded camp, a reminder that American airmen stationed in the Ryukyus in 1945 faced not only combat but the destructive power of the region's seasonal typhoons, which repeatedly battered island airfields in the final months of the war. Project: 218228