A crewman finds the only shade there is on the airstrip on Green Island (now Nissan Island), Northern Solomons, beneath an F4U-1D Corsair fighter of Marine Squadron 222, 1943-44.TBM-1C Avengers forming up over the Green Island airstrip, Northern Solomons, on their way to strike the Japanese. Some Avengers flying from Green Island acted as control ships for some of the first radio-controlled drone bomb strikes, 1944-45.
A crewman finds the only shade there is on the airstrip on Green Island (now Nissan Island), Northern Solomons, beneath an F4U-1D Corsair fighter of Marine Squadron 222, 1943-44.TBM-1C Avengers forming up over the Green Island airstrip, Northern Solomons, on their way to strike the Japanese. Some Avengers flying from Green Island acted as control ships for some of the first radio-controlled drone bomb strikes, 1944-45.


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