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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-K-385 (Color)

Guadalcanal-Tulagi Operation, 7-9 August 1942

Ships maneuvering between Tulagi and Guadalcanal during the Japanese aerial torpedo attack on 8 August 1942. USS President Jackson (AP-37) is at left. HMAS Australia is in the center distance, with anti-aircraft shells bursting nearby.
Photographed from USS Ellet (DD-398).

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 68KB; 740 x 525 pixels

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12 November 2001