The Snapshots in Time Collection

Aerial Oblique Reconnaissance Photograph, Coconut Plantation Coastline, Dagua Area, New Guinea

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