Photos Taken in Guadalcanal | World War II Database

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Lunga Point Airfield while under construction, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Jul 1942	Lunga Point Airfield/Henderson Field, seen from USS Saratoga aircraft, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Aug 1942	M2A4 Stuart tank being hoisted from USS Alchiba into a LCM(2) landing craft, off Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 7 Aug 1942	US Marine Corps LVT(1) amphibian tractors moving toward Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 7-9 Aug 1942; note USS President Hayes in background

American surveying Lunga Point Airfield, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Aug 1942	Men of US 2nd Marine Division wading through shallow water, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Aug 1942	US 1st Marine Division staff at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Aug 1942	US Marine Colonel Frank Goettge with captured Japanese currency, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Aug 1942

American photograph of a captured Japanese ammunition box with ammunition strips for the Type 92 machine gun, Guadalcanal, 1942.	Bombs being brought to a TBF Avenger of United States Navy Torpedo Squadron VT-11 flying from Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, 1942. Note the pierced steel Marsden matting.	Captured Japanese Type 92 Battalion Gun on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, mid-1942	Fires burning at Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Aug-Oct 1942

Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Sep 1942	Japanese soldier throwing a Type 91 grenade, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Sep 1942	Marine Lt Col Chesty Puller in his command post on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Sep 1942.	SBD aircraft destroyed in an air attack on Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 1942

US Marine Corps Wildcat fighter taking off from Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, circa Sep 1942	US Marines resting, Guadalcanal, Aug-Sep 1942	US warships firing at Japanese aircraft, Guadalcanal, 1942	Wrecked Japanese landing craft, Gavutu Beach, Guadalcanal, Aug-Sep 1942