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Photo #: 80-G-74487

Guadalcanal Campaign
, August 1942 - February 1943

Landing operations continue on USS Saratoga (CV-3), at left, in the late afternoon of 21 August 1942, while ships of the task force which escorted troops into the Solomons patrol off Guadalcanal. This was three days before the Battle of the Eastern Solomons.
USS Atlanta (CL-51) is at right, with two heavy cruisers and some destroyers in the distance.
Photographed from USS Enterprise (CV-6).

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

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21 November 2001