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Caption | F6F-3 Hellcat of Navy Fighting Squadron 33 after dropping into a bomb crater at the Barakoma airstrip, Vella Lavella, Solomons, late 1943. Fighting 33 was one of the few land based fighter squadrons, a role later taken up by Marine squadrons. ww2dbase | |||||||||||
WW2-Era Location Name | Vella Lavella, British Western Pacific Territories | |||||||||||
Date | 1943 | |||||||||||
Photographer | Unknown | |||||||||||
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Source | ww2dbaseUnited States Navy | |||||||||||
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Added By | David Stubblebine | |||||||||||
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