Wikimedia Commons

File:SBD and F4Us at Bougainville in December 1943.jpg

Original file ‎(1,024 × 624 pixels, file size: 239 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary edit

Description The fighter strip at Torokina was hacked out of the Bougainville jungle. This December 1943 view shows a lineup of U.S. Marine Corps Vought F4U-1 Corsairs and a Douglas SBD Dauntless, which is completing its landing rollout past a grading machine still working to finish the new landing field.
Date
Source Official U.S. Marine Corps photograph 74672 in A History of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 312 (PCN 19000307700), p. 6.
Author USMC

Licensing edit

Public domain
This file is a work of a United States Marine or employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, it is in the public domain.

العربية ∙ বাংলা ∙ català ∙ Deutsch ∙ English ∙ español ∙ français ∙ magyar ∙ italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ македонски ∙ മലയാളം ∙ မြန်မာဘာသာ ∙ Nederlands ∙ português ∙ русский ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenščina ∙ svenska ∙ Türkçe ∙ українська ∙ Tiếng Việt ∙ 中文（简体） ∙ 中文（繁體） ∙ +/−

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current14:11, 21 April 2013Thumbnail for version as of 14:11, 21 April 20131,024 × 624 (239 KB)Cobatfor (talk | contribs)levels
08:08, 21 April 2013Thumbnail for version as of 08:08, 21 April 20131,024 × 624 (239 KB)Cobatfor (talk | contribs)== {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information |Description=The fighter strip at Torokina was hacked out of the Bougainville jungle. This December 1943 view shows a lineup of U.S. Marine Corps Vought F4U-1 ''Corsair''s and a Douglas SBD ''Dauntless'', which is c...

You cannot overwrite this file.

File usage on other wikis

The following other wikis use this file:

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:SBD_and_F4Us_at_Bougainville_in_December_1943.jpg&oldid=514008916"