U.S. Plane Shot Down In Attack On Enemy Home Island Airfield -- A burning U.S. Navy dive bomber plunges toward the earth after being set afire during an attack on Kanoya airfield, Kyushu Island, on March 17, 1945. Behind the plane the parachutes of the pilot and crewman, who succeeded in jumping clear, are about to open (two circles). The attack was one of several on Kyushu, southernmost of the Japanese home Island