This dramatic strike photograph, preserved in a wartime photo album, captures a low-level attack on a Japanese-held airfield in the Southwest Pacific. Enemy aircraft burn on the ground amid bomb craters and smoke, evidence of the devastating skip-bombing and strafing tactics used by units like the 312th Bombardment Group's A-20 Havoc squadrons. Such missions crippled Japanese air power on the ground, denying the enemy the ability to contest Allied advances across New Guinea and the Philippines. Project: 218557