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.
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