B-25 Mitchell bombers sweep low across a Japanese airfield on the New Guinea coast, parachute-retarded fragmentation bombs blossoming across the field below while enemy aircraft sit exposed in dispersal revetments along the tree line. Fifth Air Force strafer squadrons, including the 312th Bomb Group, devastated Japanese air power in New Guinea through relentless low-level attacks on airfields such as those around Wewak, destroying hundreds of aircraft on the ground and crippling Japan's ability to contest the skies over the Southwest Pacific. Project: 218559