5th Air Force South Pacific Bombing & Recon Photographs from Sgt. Eugene Thompson.
This exclusive collection of ‘RESTRICTED’ World War II New New Guinea campaign bombing and recon photographs was from the bring back collection of Sgt. Eugene Thompson of the 5th Air Force. Throughout WWII Sgt. Eugene Thompson as an air gunner on combat missions aboard the infamous B-17 and B-25 in the South Pacific against the Japanese.
Sgt. Eugene Thompson participated in operations that stopped the Japanese drive in Papua, recovered New Guinea, neutralized islands in the Bismarck Archipelago and the Netherlands East Indies, and liberated the Philippines. When the war ended in Aug 1945 elements of the Fifth were moving to the Ryukyus for the invasion of Japan.
This collection of 27 original panoramic type photos show reconnaissance photographs of Japanese airfields, naval centers, and Japanese island pillbox fortifications.