The Snapshots in Time Collection

Beach, Pier, and Wrecked Vessel Amid Bomb-Damaged Coastal Vegetation, Hansa Bay, New Guinea (Print No. 6-0-147)

Beach, Pier, and Wrecked Vessel Amid Bomb-Damaged Coastal Vegetation, Hansa Bay, New Guinea (Print No. 6-0-147)

Numbered 6-0-147 and labeled 'Hansa Bay,' this photograph shows a coastal pier and wrecked vessel against a hillside of bomb-stripped vegetation, part of an extensive photographic record of the Fifth Air Force's 1944 campaign against this heavily targeted section of the New Guinea coast. Project: 218558