Solomon Islands Campaign Photographs

194 items in this album on 10 pages.


Japanese 8th Fleet Staff & Base Force officers, Buin, Bougainville, May 1943; Admiral Minoru Ota 2nd from left, General Noboru Sasaki 3rd from left, Admiral Tomoshige Samejima at center, Major Kamiya	Vice Admiral Aubrey Fitch, right, boards a PBY-5A on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, after an inspection visit, May 1943. The others are USMC BGen Francis Mulcahy, USN RAdm Charles Mason, and Army MGen Alexander Patch.	USS Helena performing night time bombardment of Japanese positions in the Munda-Vila area, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, 13 May 1943; photo taken from USS Honolulu	During rehearsals for the New Georgia operation, troops climb down nets hung over the side of attack transport USS McCawley to board LCVP landing craft at Nouméa, New Caledonia, 14 Jun 1943

Headquarters of Commander, Air, South Pacific on Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, 16 Jun 1943, with USMC MGen Ralph Mitchell, USMC MGen Holland Smith, Adm Chester Nimitz, VAdm Aubrey Fitch, and Adm William Halsey in front.	Americans sought cover on the beach of Rendova Island, 30 Jun 1943	155mm Gun M1 field guns of Battery A of USMC 9th Defense Battalion being loaded onto a LCT for transport to Piru Plantation, Tambusolo Island, Solomon Islands, Jul 1943	155mm Gun M1 of the US Marine Corps being towed on the island of Rendova, Solomon Islands, Jul 1943

Aerial view of the Munda Point Airfield in New Georgia in the Solomon Islands, 1943	Aerial view of the Segi Point Airfield at the southeastern tip of New Georgia in the Solomon Islands; the airfield was constructed by US Navy 47th Construction Battalion in 1943	Ambulance and medical personnel, New Georgia, 1943	American troops unloading cargo from LCI vessels, Rendova, Solomon Islands, circa Jul 1943

Crashed F4U-1 Corsair of Marine Squadron VMF-123 or VMF-124, mid-1943, probably at Henderson Field, Guadalcanal	F4U-1 Corsair of Marine Squadron VMF-215 at the Munda Airstrip, New Georgia, Solomons, 1943	F4U-1 Corsairs of Marine Squadron VMF-214 taxiing for take-off at Torokina Airstrip, Bougainville, Solomons, 1943	HMS Victorious at anchor in the Solomons, Jul 1943. This was during the period Victorious was on loan to the US Fleet. Note US F4F Wildcats and TBM Avengers on the flight deck.

Men of USMC 9th Defense Battalion firing their 155mm Gun M1 from Rendova or another nearby island toward New Georgia, Solomon Islands, Jul 1943	Overturned F4U-1 Corsair of Marine Squadron VMF-215 at the Munda Airstrip, New Georgia, Solomons, 1943	US Army Private Lloyd Culuck of A Company, 1st Battalion, 172nd Division eating a can of Ration B, using the lid as spoon while wearing 12-day-old dirty clothes, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, Jul 1943	US Marines wading across a stream, New Georgia, 1943