A forward airbase encampment on Ie Shima, 1945, with squad tents, support vehicles, and a B-25 Mitchell bomber visible in a dispersal area beyond a flooded borrow pit. Airfields like this one were carved rapidly out of coral and earth to support Twelfth Air Force and Far East Air Forces bombing operations against Japan in the final months of World War II, housing the ground crews and equipment of units such as the 345th Bombardment Group. Project: 218266