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Aerial, Bombing Raid 1
"Bombing raid - some Indonesian location. A long flight from Dobodura... It is a great Photograph - from the 3rd Attack collection. I was with them Nov & Dec 1943 and this is from them - Don't really know where" From "Darkroom Soldier": "Philippine…

A plume of water showing a bomb exploding in the water near a shoreline populated by houses and other buildings.
"A near miss bomb explosion near a small settlement on the North Coast of Papua New Guinea"

P-38, "Strictly Laffs"
"The P-38 'Strictly Laffs' assigned to Charles Lindburgh - used for training P-38 pilots"

Aerial, Parachute Bomb Drop 2
"Parafrags' being dropped at low level over some well built houses - Parachuted Bombs dropped over houses somewhere in Southern Phillipines. In low altitude strafing missions, the parachute permitted the plane to get beyond th bomb blast."

Multiple small craters in an open field, with the rearmost one billowing black smoke.
"two views of Japanese Air strip - Bomb craters and burning Jap airplane Eastern New Guinea from 3rd Attack Group's automatic camera in Bomb Bay of an A-20 plane specific air strip unknown"

Aerial, Burning Plane
"two views of Japanese Air strip - Bomb craters and burning Jap airplane Eastern New Guinea from 3rd Attack Group's automatic camera in Bomb Bay of an A-20 plane specific air strip unknown"

Aerial, Parachute Bomb Drop 1
"Parafrags" dropped from a low flying B-25" "fast, low approach, used Parachutes on bombs to permit planes to get away before the explosion Looks like quite a miss here - perhaps just a scare tactic"

Aerial, Corregidor Under Clouds
"Clouds over most buildings. 2 Naval vessels in distance. 17th Recon original but from Nat'l Archives Microfilm - from Don Abbot. Not sharp"

Aerial, Corregidor Landing Zones 7
"Some parachutes still in the air. 17th Recon Photo - but from the Nat'l Archive Microfilm via Don Abbot. Not sharp. Annotation by Fred Hill"
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