
Caption | US Marine Corps Wildcat fighter taking off from Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, circa Sep 1942 ww2dbase | ||||||||||||
Source | ww2dbaseUnited States Marine Corps Thayer Soule Collection | ||||||||||||
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Photos at Same Place | Lunga Point, Guadalcanal, British Western Pacific Territories | ||||||||||||
Added By | C. Peter Chen | ||||||||||||
Added Date | 5 Oct 2014 | ||||||||||||
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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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WW2-Era Place Name | Lunga Point, Guadalcanal, British Western Pacific Territories |
Lat/Long | -9.4280, 160.0548 |
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