Eerie as a scene from Dante's Inferno is this view of a combat photography unit at work in the smoking ruins of Lae the morning after the capture of the Japanese held town. It had been cut to pieces by the heavy Allied bombardment preceding the landing of an amphibious expedition which was the preliminary action to routing the Japanese out of northeastern New Guinea. The clearing out of these enemy nests was a preliminary to an attack on Rabaul.
