Photo #: NH 97743
Guadalcanal-Tulagi Operation, August 1942
Fires burn near the Tulagi Cricket Grounds, after bombing by
U.S. carrier aircraft on 7 August 1942, the day U.S. Marines
landed to capture the island.
Photographed from a Navy plane, this view looks about north.
The original photograph came from Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's
World War II history project working files.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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