| Caption | US F4U-1 Corsair, US F6F-3 Hellcat, US SBD Dauntless, and New Zealand Kittyhawk Mk. IV aircraft at the Barakoma airfield at Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands, 10 Dec 1943 ww2dbase | |||||||||||||
| Source | ww2dbaseUnited States Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation | |||||||||||||
| Identification Code | 1996.253.7152.012 | |||||||||||||
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| Photos on Same Day | 10 Dec 1943 | |||||||||||||
| Added By | C. Peter Chen | |||||||||||||
| Added Date | 21 Feb 2013 | |||||||||||||
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| Licensing | Public Domain. According to the United States copyright law (United States Code, Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105), in part, "[c]opyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government". | |||||||||||||
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| WW2-Era Place Name | Vella Lavella, Solomons, |
| Lat/Long | -7.9117, 156.7058 |
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