Taken during an actual low-level bombing run, this remarkable photograph captures bombs bouncing in mid-air above a cratered Japanese airfield in the Wewak area of New Guinea. The original owner's handwritten note explains the danger vividly: before parachute retarders were fitted to fragmentation bombs, ricocheting ordnance posed a real risk of striking following aircraft during these low-altitude 'parafrag' strikes -- a tactic pioneered by Fifth Air Force units, including the 312th Bomb Group, to devastate Japanese aircraft parked on the ground. Project: 218559