The Snapshots in Time Collection
Low-Level Strike Photograph: 312th Bomb Group Aircraft Attacking a Pacific Village, WWII
A low-level strike photograph attributed to the 312th Bomb Group, Fifth Air Force, showing an attack on a village and cultivated valley in the Southwest Pacific during World War II. Numerous smoke trails - likely from parachute-fragmentation bombs or rockets - streak toward the ground as a bomb detonates below, illustrating the treetop-altitude tactics used by A-20 Havoc and A-26 Invader crews against Japanese positions in New Guinea and the Philippines, 1943-1945. Project: 218558