The Snapshots in Time Collection
Album Page: 'Wewak' - String of 500-lb Bombs Falling on Plane Revetments with Handwritten Notes
This annotated scrapbook page from a 312th Bomb Group veteran documents a bombing run against Japanese aircraft revetments hidden within a coconut plantation near Wewak, New Guinea. The handwritten caption explains that the regular dotted pattern visible across the photograph was created by rows of coconut palms - a detail airmen learned to distinguish from camouflaged aircraft and installations during the sustained 1943 air campaign against Wewak's airfields. Project: 218561