The Snapshots in Time Collection

Album Page: '312th Bomb Group Based at Gusap' — Native Village Being Strafed, Lower Sepik River

Album Page: '312th Bomb Group Based at Gusap' — Native Village Being Strafed, Lower Sepik River

A veteran's own handwriting identifies this page: 'New Guinea Targets, when 312th Bomb Group was based at Gusap... at the head of the Ramu Valley.' The photograph below, captioned 'Native village being strafed, Lower Sepik River,' documents a native settlement attacked during Fifth Air Force operations, a stark and candid record of the air campaign's reach into the lives of New Guinea's civilian population. Project: 218561