222 items in this album on 12 pages.
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PV-1 Ventura in service as a night fighter with Marine Night Fighting Squadron VMF(N)-531 at Banika, Russell Islands in the Solomons, mid-Sep 1943. | TBF-1 Avengers on the coral ramp at Munda airfield, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, late 1943. |
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TBF-1 Avengers on the coral ramp at Munda airfield, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, late 1943. | TBF-1 Avengers on the coral ramp at Munda airfield, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, late 1943. |
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US Marine, New Georgia, 1943 | US Marines operating heavy equipment, New Georgia, 1943 |
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US Marines resting, New Georgia, 1943; note native porters | US Marines with captured Japanese equipment, New Georgia, 1943 |
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US Marines, New Georgia, 1943 | Wrecked aircraft, New Georgia, 1943 |
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Wrecked Japanese G4M 'Betty' bomber, Munda Airfield, New Georgia, 1943 | B-24 Liberator bomber raiding the Japanese airfields at Cape Gloucester, New Britain in preparation of the American invasion, Oct 1943 |
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TBF-1 Avenger at Munda airfield, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, showing a damaged wing from Japanese anti-aircraft fire, Oct 1943. | F4U-1 Corsair of Maj RG Owens USMC, Marine Squadron VMF-215 at the Munda Airstrip, New Georgia, Solomons, late 1943 |
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F4U-1 Corsair of Marine Squadron VMF-223 at the Munda Airstrip, New Georgia, Solomons, 1943 | F4U-1A Corsair of Marine Squadron VMF-212 at Barakoma Airfield, Vella Lavella, Solomons, Nov 1943 |
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US troops boarding landing barges at Empress Augusta Bay, Bougainville, Nov 1943 | LCVP landing craft circling off Cape Torokina, Bougainville, Solomon Islands while awaiting orders, 1 Nov 1943; note 20mm Oerlikon AA gun; photographed from aboard APA-13 USS American Legion |
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Men of the US 3rd Marine Regiment fighting just inland of Blue 3 Beach, Bougainville, Solomon Islands, 1 Nov 1943 | Men of US 3rd Marine Division disembarking onto the invasion beach at Bougainville, Solomon Islands, Nov 1943 |
222 items in this album on 12 pages.