Solomon Islands Campaign Photographs

214 items in this album on 11 pages.


US Navy pilots of Fighting Squadron 6 display the Royal Navy Ensign and the crest of HMS Victorious during their service aboard the British carrier when she was on loan to the US Fleet, 1943.	Men of Company K, 3rd Battalion, US 27th Infantry Regiment along the Zieta Trail, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, 12 Aug 1943

US Army Major General J. Lawton Collins and Major Charles Davis at New Georgia, Solomon Islands, 14 Aug 1943	155mm Gun M1 of USMC 4th Defense Battalion near Barakoma, Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands, circa late Aug 1943

2Lt Harry S Huidekoper, USMCR of VMF-213 poses aboard the hulk of F4U-1 Corsair “George,” Munda Airstrip, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, Sept 1943. This aircraft previously flew with VMF-122.	American field hospital, New Georgia, 1943

Barren landscape, New Georgia, 1943	Navy TBF-1 Avengers at the Munda Airstrip, New Georgia, Solomons, Sep 1943. Note the crews are in the process of applying the newly updated National Insignia with white bars and a blue border.

Navy TBF-1 Avengers at the Munda Airstrip, New Georgia, Solomons, Sept 1943.	Navy TBF-1 Avengers at the Munda Airstrip, New Georgia, Solomons, Sept 1943. Note the crews are in the process of applying the newly updated National Insignia with white bars and a blue border.

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.	Two Japanese soldiers captured at Ilangana Peninsula east of Munda, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, mid-1943

US Marine, New Georgia, 1943	US Marines operating heavy equipment, New Georgia, 1943

US Marines resting, New Georgia, 1943; note native porters	US Marines with captured Japanese equipment, New Georgia, 1943

US Marines, New Georgia, 1943	Wrecked A6M3 Zero aircraft at Munda Field, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, Sep 1943

Wrecked aircraft and Jeep, New Georgia, 1943	Wrecked aircraft, New Georgia, 1943