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U.S. planes attack Japanese-held Celebes town A U.S. Army Air Forces North American B-25 Mitchell bomber of the Fifth U.S. Army Air Force soars toward the target area in the Japanese-held town of Gorontalo on the island of Celebes (Sulawesi) in the Netherlands East Indies. The attack centered on the warehouses, further reducing enemy's supplies in the southwest Pacific area. During September 1944, Fifth Air force planes based in New Guinea paid special attention to the Netherlands East Indies, a major source of Japan's steadily dwindling oil supply.

Date

1944-10-10

Photographer / author

Far East Air Force

Archive

U.S. National Archives (via Wikimedia Commons)

Type

photograph

Original size

5,873 × 5,747 pixels

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