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PBY Catalinas on the ramp of the Luganville Seaplane Base, Segond Channel, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, 1942

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Caption     PBY Catalinas on the ramp of the Luganville Seaplane Base, Segond Channel, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, 1942 ww2dbase
WW2-Era Location Name Luganville, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides
Date  1942
Photographer    Unknown
 
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Source    ww2dbaseUnited States Navy
 
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Photo Size 1,494 x 1,600 pixels



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1. John Myers Jr says:
8 Feb 2018 11:17:41 AM

I would really like to find more information on New Hebrides. Just found out from my father's discharge paper that is where he served during WWII.
2. E. Reid says:
6 May 2020 11:59:01 AM

My brother Corporal Paul E. Nicely passed away in Hospital New Hebrides Islands (Efate Isl?) 6/19/1944. 1940-1944 same outfit, 4th Marines Defense Battalion, Special Weapons Group, H Battery.
Were at Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941, aborted Wake Island rescue,later9vj arrived Espiritu Santo, N.H. in 1942. Buried in Guantanamo Cemetery (?) Any thing to add to my research Appreciated.

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