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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-11899

Guadalcanal-Tulagi Landings, 7-9 August 1942


Japanese facilities burning on Tanambogo Island, east of Tulagi, on 7 August 1942, the invasion's first day.
This view looks about ESE, with Gavutu Island to the right, connected to Tanambogo by a causeway. Small island to the left is Gaomi. The Florida Islands are in the distance.
Photographed from an SBD aircraft based on one of the supporting U.S. aircraft carriers.

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

Online Image: 77KB; 740 x 630 pixels

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12 November 2001