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| Description | Guadalcanal-Tulagi Operation, August 1942: Fires burn near the Tulagi Cricket Grounds, after bombing by U.S. carrier aircraft on 7 August 1942, the day U.S. Marines landed to capture the island. Photographed from a U.S. Navy Douglas SBD Dauntless, this view looks about northwest. The small islands in the foreground are (from the bottom of the view, running toward Tulagi, as identified on the original print): Songonangona, Kokomtabu and Mbangai. |
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| Source | Official U.S. Navy photo NH 97742 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command |
| Author | U.S. Navy |
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| current | 15:18, 9 May 2015 | | 698 × 584 (246 KB) | Cobatfor (talk | contribs) | NHHC photo |
| 15:45, 24 July 2006 |  | 640 × 448 (47 KB) | Cla68 (talk | contribs) | Aerial view of Tulagi and surrounding islands, 1942. http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/USN-CN-Solomons/USN-CN-Solomons-16.html |
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