American Wings Over Haha Jima With the target area rising out Of the sea before them, two Liberator bombers of the Seventh U.S. Army Air Force spread their wings menacingly over Japanese-held Haha Jima in the Bonin Island. Operating from bases in the Marianas Islands, American planes have been regularly pounding Japanese installations in the Bonins and near-by Volcano Islands, both in the central Pacific, as the Allies move closer and closer to the Japanese homeland. January 19, 1945. (Photo by