1944 United States Army map of New Georgia and Rendova Islands with a portion of the Solomon Sea in the Solomon Islands.

Caption     1944 United States Army map of New Georgia and Rendova Islands with a portion of the Solomon Sea in the Solomon Islands. ww2dbase
Photographer    Unknown
Source    ww2dbaseUnited States Army via the University of Texas
Identification Code   SC 57-1
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Kinugasa   Main article  Photos  Maps  
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Photo Size 3,474 x 3,832 pixels
Photos at Same Place New Georgia, Solomon Islands, British Western Pacific Territories
Added By David Stubblebine
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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1. Commenter identity confirmed David Stubblebine says:
26 Dec 2020 08:50:44 PM

Just about dead-center in this map is the location where the Japanese Furutaka-class Heavy Cruiser Kinugasa was sunk on 14 Nov 1942 by planes based at Henderson Field on Guadalcanal and by carrier planes from USS Enterprise as Kinugasa was withdrawing from a bombardment of Guadalcanal.

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