Americans Advance on Noemfoor Islands through wreckage of Japanese plane. U.S.

Americans Advance on Noemfoor Islands through wreckage of Japanese plane. U.S. infantrymen advance behind American armor through the wreckage of a Japanese plane near the Kamiri airstrip on Noemfoor Island. Noemfoor, off the coast of Netherlands New Guinea, was liberated from the enemy on july 6,1944, and provides the Allies with airfields within striking distance of the Phillippines. The loss of Noemfoor, followed two days later by the Allied capture of Saipan Island in the Central Pacific Marianas, was followed by the resignation of the Japanese cabinet.