Vertical view from 18,000' of B-24D Liberators bombing Kara Airfield on Bougainville
The upper edge of the photo is south and the lower edge is north. Bombed by nineteen B-24D Liberator that dropped a total of 152 x 1,000 pounds on the runway area. Their raid was followed by thirty SBD Dauntless dive bombers, twenty-four TBF Avengers and twenty B-25D Mitchells from 42nd Bombardment Group (42nd BG) from two squadrons. Credit: USAAF, 13th AF Date: October 31, 1943
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