This 389th Bombardment Squadron strike photograph, taken over Bayombong on 12 April 1945 at 0850 hours, captures bomb detonations erupting near a village building moments after release, with a parachute-retarded fragmentation bomb still descending in the frame. Part of a series of missions the 312th Bomb Group flew against Bayombong that April, it documents the sustained pressure Fifth Air Force squadrons applied to Japanese positions in the Cagayan Valley during the final push to secure northern Luzon. Project: 218541