This aerial photograph, taken by an airman of the 312th Bomb Group over the Wewak area of New Guinea, depicts a native village built on stilts above a flooded swamp. Traditional thatched dwellings and dugout canoes are visible amid dense marsh grass. Photographs like this were taken during combat and reconnaissance missions and later served as documentation of the terrain and people encountered by American airmen operating in the Southwest Pacific during World War II. Project: 218561