Keywords: outdoor monochrome Lot-5279-7: U.S. Air Raids on Ceram (Seram), 11 October 1944. From original caption, “American Plane Touches off Japanese Fuel Tanks.” Japanese oil storage at Boela on the island of Ceram in the Netherlands East Indies burn fiercely after being hit by bombs from a U.S. Army Douglas A-20 “Havoc” attack bomber of the Fifth U.S. Army Air Force. Blows by U.S. Planes on oil plants and enemy shipping are steadily whittling down the fuel supply for the Japanese war machine. U.S. Army Photograph.(2015/10/30) Lot-5279-7: U.S. Air Raids on Ceram (Seram), 11 October 1944. From original caption, “American Plane Touches off Japanese Fuel Tanks.” Japanese oil storage at Boela on the island of Ceram in the Netherlands East Indies burn fiercely after being hit by bombs from a U.S. Army Douglas A-20 “Havoc” attack bomber of the Fifth U.S. Army Air Force. Blows by U.S. Planes on oil plants and enemy shipping are steadily whittling down the fuel supply for the Japanese war machine. U.S. Army Photograph.(2015/10/30) |