Keywords: blackandwhite monochrome outdoor black and white Lot 4568-9: Aitape-Wewak Campaign, November 1944-August 1945. Wewak, New Guinea. A preview of the ultimate doomsday at Dagua is this 5th Air Force minimum altitude attack on a Japanese air strip eight miles west of Wewak on February 3, 1945. The leading B-24 (left) unloads paragrags on three Japanese Tony aircraft (Kawasaki Ki-61), while the parafrags peopper the strip. Note the dim B-25 at the upper left. At right, a B-25 cuts through dense smoke from a burning Japanese Helen aircraft, Nakajima Ki-49. Photographed through Mylar sleeve. (7/10/2015). Lot 4568-9: Aitape-Wewak Campaign, November 1944-August 1945. Wewak, New Guinea. A preview of the ultimate doomsday at Dagua is this 5th Air Force minimum altitude attack on a Japanese air strip eight miles west of Wewak on February 3, 1945. The leading B-24 (left) unloads paragrags on three Japanese Tony aircraft (Kawasaki Ki-61), while the parafrags peopper the strip. Note the dim B-25 at the upper left. At right, a B-25 cuts through dense smoke from a burning Japanese Helen aircraft, Nakajima Ki-49. Photographed through Mylar sleeve. (7/10/2015). |