The Snapshots in Time Collection

Strafing Attack on Rail Line Through Coconut Plantation, Mounted Album Print (Ref. 100-0-49)

Strafing Attack on Rail Line Through Coconut Plantation, Mounted Album Print (Ref. 100-0-49)

Mounted on its original album page and marked with the handwritten reference number 100-0-49, this photograph captures a 312th Bombardment Group aircraft mid-strafing-run against a rail line threading through a coconut plantation. Smoke rises from hit rail cars and damaged trackside structures, part of a numbered photographic record of the group's low-level interdiction missions in the Philippines during 1944-1945. Project: 218556