This aerial strike photograph captures a Fifth Air Force attack on Japanese coastal barges, disguised with cut palm fronds to escape detection along a tropical shoreline. A bomb splash erupts beside the larger vessel as the attacking aircraft, likely a 312th Bomb Group B-25 Mitchell, passes overhead. Small barges like these were vital to Japanese resupply efforts in the island chains of the Southwest Pacific, and their destruction was a central mission of Allied medium bomber squadrons through 1944-1945. Project: 218559