Photo #: NH 97746
Guadalcanal-Tulagi Operation, August 1942
Tanambogo Island during the bombardment by Allied ships and U.S.
carrier aircraft on 7 August 1942, the day U.S. Marines landed
on adjacent Gavutu Island. The small island in the foreground
is Gaomi.
Photographed from a Navy plane, this view looks toward the west.
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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