| Caption | Â Â Â | 1944 United States Army map of New Georgia and Rendova Islands with a portion of the Solomon Sea in the Solomon Islands. ww2dbase | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Source | Â Â Â | ww2dbaseUnited States Army via the University of Texas | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Identification Code | Â Â Â | SC 57-1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Photos at Same Place | Â | New Georgia, Solomon Islands, British Western Pacific Territories | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Added By | Â | David Stubblebine | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Added Date | Â | 26 Jan 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Licensing | Â | 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 | New Georgia, Solomon Islands, British Western Pacific Territories |
| Lat/Long | -9.1490, 157.0476 |
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26 Dec 2020 08:50:44 PM
Just about dead-center in this map is the location where the Japanese Furutaka-class Heavy Cruiser Kinugasa was sunk on 14 Nov 1942 by planes based at Henderson Field on Guadalcanal and by carrier planes from USS Enterprise as Kinugasa was withdrawing from a bombardment of Guadalcanal.