The Snapshots in Time Collection

312th Bomb Group Tent Bivouac Area at a Forward Air Base, Southwest Pacific Theater, WWII

312th Bomb Group Tent Bivouac Area at a Forward Air Base, Southwest Pacific Theater, WWII

A tent city stretches across a forward air base in the Southwest Pacific, home to the ground personnel of the 312th Bomb Group. Flying A-20 Havoc and A-26 Invader attack bombers under Fifth Air Force, the group leapfrogged from New Guinea to the Philippines in 1943-1945, its airmen and support crews living in improvised camps like this one amid the wreckage of war. Project: 218275