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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97760

Guadalcanal-Tulagi Operation, August 1942


Landing craft off Beach "Red" on Guadalcanal Island, circa 7-9 August 1942, when U.S. Marines came ashore to capture the Lunga Point area and its airfield from the Japanese.
The airfield is out of view to the right.

The original photograph came from the illustrations package for Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's "History of United States Naval Operations in World War II", volume IV (originally published opposite page 254).

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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16 November 2001