A U.S. Army Air Forces ground crewman stands beneath the wing of a North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber on a forward airfield in the Pacific, circa 1945. The aircraft's star-and-bar insignia identifies it as a WWII-era U.S. combat plane, likely assigned to the 345th Bombardment Group ('Air Apaches'), which flew B-25s from Ie Shima during the closing months of the war. Photographs like this one document the daily life of maintenance and flight-line personnel who kept Allied air power operational in the Pacific Theater. Project: 218266