This aerial photograph captures a string of 500-pound bombs falling toward Japanese aircraft revetments within a coconut plantation near Wewak, New Guinea. The plantation's regular rows of palm trees created a distinctive dotted pattern visible from the air, while the surrounding terrain shows the scars of repeated Allied air raids. Images such as this documented the ongoing Fifth Air Force campaign, which included the 312th Bomb Group, against Japanese air installations in the New Guinea theater during 1943. Project: 218561