The Snapshots in Time Collection
Aerial Oblique Reconnaissance Photograph, Coconut Plantation Coastline, Dagua Area, New Guinea
This oblique aerial view captures a coconut plantation along the New Guinea coastline near Dagua, one of several Japanese-occupied airfield sites on the Sepik coast targeted by Fifth Air Force units, including the 312th Bomb Group, during the New Guinea campaign of 1943-1944. Reconnaissance and strike photography such as this documented terrain, plantation cover, and enemy installations ahead of and during low-level attack missions. Project: 218557