This photograph carries its original handwritten mission caption: '389 B.S. 312 B.G. 16 Jan. 1030, 7 min. RO. R.R. Legaspi to Calauag.' It documents a strike by the 389th Bombardment Squadron, 312th Bomb Group, against the railroad connecting Legaspi and Calauag in the Bicol region of southern Luzon. Thick smoke rises from the village and rail line below, a vivid record of the low-level interdiction missions flown against Japanese transportation networks during the liberation of the Philippines in early 1945. Project: 218556