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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97764

Tulagi Island, Solomon Islands


Annotated vertical aerial photograph, prepared for planning purposes shortly before the island was captured by U.S. Marines on 7-8 August 1942.
"Beach Blue" was the Marine landing area during that operation.

The original photograph came from the illustrations package for Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison "History of United States Naval Operations in World War II", volume IV (originally published opposite page 288).

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 114KB; 490 x 765 pixels

 

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16 November 2001