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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