Smoke and flame rise from burning Japanese aircraft as parachute-retarded fragmentation bombs descend on additional parked planes in this striking combat photograph of a low-level strike against a Wewak-area airfield in New Guinea. Raids like this one, carried out by Fifth Air Force B-25 Mitchell units including the 312th Bomb Group, destroyed dozens of Japanese aircraft on the ground and were instrumental in breaking Japanese air power in the region during 1943-1944. Project: 218559