Caption | Bomb Damage Assessment photo of destroyed Ki-48 bombers at a Japanese airstrip in northern New Guinea, 1942-1943, photo 2 of 2; note open parachutes in upper center (bombs or supplies?) ww2dbase | |||||||
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2. F. Pelder says:
5 Jan 2018 05:14:32 AM
These are not parafrag bombs in my opinion. Those chutes are much smaller. If you zoom in you can see a lot of men walking around so I think this is supplies being dropped.
5 Jan 2018 05:14:32 AM
These are not parafrag bombs in my opinion. Those chutes are much smaller. If you zoom in you can see a lot of men walking around so I think this is supplies being dropped.
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1 Apr 2011 09:39:49 PM
"Parafrag bombs" were 23lb/10kg fragmentation
cluster/bombs attached by parachute dropped over the target.
The Douglas A-20 Havoc could carry 40 of these weapons and would attack at low altitude over a Japanese airfield or other targets such as runways, troops or other positions, the parachutes would slow the bombs so the attacking aircraft would be out of the blast radius.
The parafrag was widely used by the Fifth Air force in (SWPA) South West Pacific Area.
In three attacks alone over Japanese airfields over 150 aircraft were destroyed along with pilots, aircrew plus 300 ground crew strafing runs on the fields with fifty-caliber machine guns, destroying equipment,
fuel and personnel, the A-20 lived up to its name of Havoc. Straf from the German word strafen, to punish.