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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-19223

Guadalcanal-Tulagi Landings, 7-9 August 1942


Fires burning among Japanese facilities and seaplanes on Tanambogo Island, east of Tulagi, on the invasion's first day, 7 August 1942.
This view looks about SSW, with Gavutu Island to the left, connected to Tanambogo by a causeway.

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

Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 595 pixels

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12 November 2001