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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: USMC 52796

USS Alchiba (AK-23)


Aground and afire off Lunga Point, Guadalcanal, circa late November 1942. She had been torpedoed by the Japanese submarine I-16 on 28 November.
Men are handling cargo on the beach, possibly assisting in unloading Alchiba while she was fighting her fires.
Note barbed wire fencing in the foreground.

U.S. Marine Corps Photograph.

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22 January 2002