This album page from a 312th Bomb Group veteran's wartime scrapbook pairs an aerial photograph of a native stilt village near Wewak, New Guinea, with a handwritten note explaining its significance: intelligence had wrongly assessed local sentiment as hostile, but when Allied airmen were forced down in this area, they received friendly assistance from villagers. Personal annotations such as this offer rare firsthand insight into airmen's experiences and their relationships with local populations during the New Guinea campaign. Project: 218561