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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97750

Guadalcanal-Tulagi Operation, 7-8 August 1942


Raising the Colors on Guadalcanal after the initial landings, circa 7 August 1942.
Officer standing second from right in this group appears to be the First Marine Division commander, Major General Alexander A. Vandegrift, USMC.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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14 November 2001