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Photo # 80-G-19205: Wreck of a Japanese torpedo bomber floats off Tulagi, 8 August 1942

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- EVENTS -- World War II in the Pacific --

Guadalcanal Campaign, Aug. 1942 - Feb. 1943 --
Japanese Air Attacks, 7-8 August 1942 (Part II)


This page features more views of Japanese air attacks on the Allied invasion force, during the first days of the Guadalcanal Campaign.

For more pictures related to the these air attacks, see:

  • Japanese Air Attacks, 7-8 August 1942 .


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 69116

    Guadalcanal - Tulagi Operation
    , August 1942

    A Japanese aircraft burns on the water after it was shot down by anti-aircraft fire during an attack on U.S. transports between Guadalcanal and Tulagi, 7-8 August 1942.
    Guadalcanal is in the background, with the heights above Cape Esperance at the right.

    Collection of Admiral Richmond K. Turner, USN.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 96KB; 740 x 530 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 69114

    Guadalcanal - Tulagi Operation
    , August 1942

    Scene just after the Japanese torpedo plane attack on shipping between Guadalcanal and Tulagi, 8 August 1942.
    USS George F. Elliott (AP-13) is afire in the left center. She had been hit by a crashing enemy aircraft. The other two smoke plumes mark the locations of planes that crashed into the water.

    Collection of Admiral Richmond K. Turner, USN.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 64KB; 740 x 455 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 69118

    Guadalcanal - Tulagi Operation
    , August 1942

    USS George F. Elliott (AP-13) burning between Guadalcanal and Tulagi, after she was hit by a crashing Japanese aircraft during an air attack on 8 August 1942.

    Collection of Admiral Richmond K. Turner, USN.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 61KB; 740 x 525 pixels

     
    Photo #: 80-G-34683

    Guadalcanal - Tulagi Operation
    , August 1942

    USS Hopkins (DMS-13) steams past the transport area between Guadalcanal and Tulagi, 8 August 1942.
    Ship burning in the left center distance is USS George F. Elliott (AP-13), which had been hit by a Japanese air attack earlier in the day.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 92KB; 740 x 610 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: 80-G-K-383 (Color)

    Guadalcanal-Tulagi Operation, 7-9 August 1942

    Largely intact floating wreckage of a Japanese Navy Type 1 land attack plane (a type later code named "Betty"), which crashed during the aerial torpedo attack on the Allied invasion force off Tulagi Island on 8 August 1942.
    Photographed from USS Ellet (DD-398).

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 146KB; 740 x 600 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: 80-G-19205

    Guadalcanal-Tulagi Operation, 7-9 August 1942


    Crewmen of USS Ellet (DD-398) look at the floating wreckage of a Japanese Navy Type 1 land attack plane (a type later code named "Betty"), which crashed during the aerial torpedo attack on the Allied invasion force off Tulagi Island on 8 August 1942.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 136KB; 740 x 560 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

    Note: Have YOU seen the original color transparency for this photo?
    The very good quality original Kodachrome transparency (bearing photo number 80-G-K-384) apparently "strayed" from National Archives' files sometime between 1972 and 1982. Anybody who could help recover it would perform a fine service for the historical community.

     
    Photo #: NH 69113

    Guadalcanal - Tulagi Operation
    , August 1942

    A Japanese G4M1 bomber, with its tail broken off, floats between Guadalcanal and Tulagi after it crashed during an air attack on the invasion force, 7 August 1942.

    Collection of Admiral Richmond K. Turner, USN.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 45KB; 740 x 455 pixels

     


    In addition to the images presented on these pages, the book "H.M.A.S. Canberra", by Alan Payne (Published by the Naval Historical Society of Australia, Garden Island NSW, in 1973) features an interesting photograph that shows ships damaged in the 8 August 1942 Japanese aerial torpedo attacks.
    This image, taken from a Royal Australian Navy ship, shows USS Jarvis (DD-393) down at the bow after she was torpedoed by Japanese aircraft off Guadalcanal on 8 August 1942. USS George F. Elliot (AP-13), another victim of that attack, is burning in the background.

    For more pictures related to the these air attacks, see:

  • Japanese Air Attacks, 7-8 August 1942 .


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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