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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97741

Guadalcanal-Tulagi Operation, August 1942


Tulagi town seen from a U.S. carrier aircraft on 7 August 1942, the day U.S. Marines landed to capture the island.
This view looks in an easterly direction.

The original photograph came from Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's World War II history project working files.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 66KB; 740 x 605 pixels

 

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14 November 2001