Us Official Photographs

Mitchell Bomber Over Paramushiru Island

AIR ATTACK FROM THE ALEUTIANS -- Pulling out of a highly destructive run, this Mitchell bomber is over snow-covered Kashiwabara army staging area, Paramushiru Island in the northern Kuriles, where it has just strafed troops and buildings after scoring direct hits on a 2,500 ton cargo ship seen exploding and burning in the bay. The medium bargo ship was one of six cargo and escort vessels sunk or damaged by a force of U.S. Army 11th Air Force Mitchells and Liberators which surprised a convoy in the Kataoka Naval Base, Shimushu Island, to score their biggest day's toll of enemy shipping in almost two years.