Parachute-retarded fragmentation bombs rain down on a Japanese-controlled rail yard in this strike photograph from a 312th Bomb Group low-level attack mission in the Philippines. A locomotive sits exposed on the tracks near an engine house as smoke from previous hits drifts across the yard. Missions like this crippled the rail networks Japanese forces depended on to move troops and material, contributing to the broader Allied campaign to retake the islands. Project: 218555