Captured mid-attack from a low-flying aircraft, this photograph shows smoke rising from a jungle ridge and cultivated garden plots along the New Guinea coast, targets typical of Fifth Air Force strafing and bombing missions against Japanese encampments and food-supply areas during the Wewak campaign. Such low-altitude attacks, a specialty of B-25 Mitchell units like the 312th Bomb Group, were essential to cutting off Japanese ground forces from their supply lines in the jungle. Project: 218559