The Snapshots in Time Collection
312th Bomb Group Airmen Burning Camp Debris Before Relocation, November 1944
Airmen of the 312th Bomb Group burn discarded packing crates and camp refuse in November 1944 while preparing to depart New Guinea for the Philippine Islands. Clearing a site before a move meant disposing of anything not worth carrying forward, a routine but labor-intensive part of a bomb group's advance across the Southwest Pacific. Project: 218269