Photo #: 80-G-K-386 (Color) Guadalcanal Landings, August 1942 Ships maneuvering off Tulagi, Solomon Islands, on 9 August 1942. Photographed from USS Ellet (DD-398). USS Chicago (CA-29) is at right, with a destroyer's stern and wake in the foreground. Column of smoke in the left center distance, beyond the two destroyers, may be from the burning USS George F. Elliott (AP-13). The original color transparency was a 35mm slide. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 75KB; 740 x 505 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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24 October 2001