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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97836

Rehersals for the Guadalcanal-Tulagi Invasion


Two high-speed transports (APD) underway during practice landings in the Fiji Islands, 30 July 1942, shortly before the invasion of Guadalcanal and Tulagi.
These ships are USS Gregory (APD-3), at left, and USS Little (APD-4), in the right center.
Note the light cruiser beyond them, possibly USS San Juan (CL-54).

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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22 January 2002