The Snapshots in Time Collection

312th Bomb Group Strike Photograph — Attack on Iguig Church, Cagayan, Luzon, 11 April 1945

312th Bomb Group Strike Photograph — Attack on Iguig Church, Cagayan, Luzon, 11 April 1945

An original strike photograph from the 386th Bombardment Squadron, 312th Bombardment Group, documenting an attack on Iguig, Cagayan province, on 11 April 1945. The image captures the historic Spanish colonial church at Iguig along the Cagayan River at the moment of a bombing or strafing strike, with impact bursts visible in the tree line behind it. Churches and large masonry structures in the Philippines were sometimes fortified or occupied by Japanese forces during the retreat through northern Luzon, making them targets for Allied air attacks in the final months of the Pacific war. Project: 218541