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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

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.

 

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If you want higher resolution reproductions than this digital image, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

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12 November 2001