
Caption | F6F-3 Hellcat of Navy Fighting Squadron 33 after dropping into a bomb crater at the Barakoma airstrip, Vella Lavella, Solomons, late 1943. Fighting 33 was one of the few land based fighter squadrons, a role later taken up by Marine squadrons. ww2dbase | |||||||||||
Source | ww2dbaseUnited States Navy | |||||||||||
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Photos at Same Place | Vella Lavella, British Western Pacific Territories | |||||||||||
Added By | David Stubblebine | |||||||||||
Added Date | 9 Feb 2013 | |||||||||||
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Licensing | Public Domain. According to the United States copyright law (United States Code, Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105), in part, "[c]opyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government". |
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