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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 97741
Guadalcanal-Tulagi Operation, August 1942
Tulagi town seen from a U.S. carrier aircraft on 7 August 1942,
the day U.S. Marines landed to capture the island.
This view looks in an easterly direction.
The original photograph came from Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's
World War II history project working files.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 66KB; 740 x 605 pixels
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