A low-level strike photograph taken by an aircraft of the 498th Bombardment Squadron, 345th Bombardment Group ('Air Apaches'), during an attack on Erima Plantation, New Guinea, on 31 December 1943. Smoke rises near the treeline from a bomb burst as the photographing aircraft skims just above the shoreline, illustrating the low-altitude tactics used against Japanese coastal positions in the New Guinea campaign. Project: 218236