Photo #: NH 97747
Guadalcanal-Tulagi Operation, August 1942
Tanambogo Island under bombardment by Allied ships and U.S. carrier
aircraft on 7 August 1942. Causeway links Tanambogo with Gavutu
Island, part of which is visible in the lower left.
Photographed from a Navy plane, this view looks about northwest.
The original photograph came from Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's
World War II history project working files.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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