Solomon Islands Campaign Photographs

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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, 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	Wrecked Japanese G4M 'Betty' bomber, Munda Airfield, New Georgia, 1943

US Army infantrymen fighting in the jungles of Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands, 13 Sep 1943	African-American men of US 34th Construction Battalion constructing prefabricated steel warehouse at Halavo Seaplane Base, Florida Island, Solomon Islands, 19 Sep 1943

155mm Gun M1 of USMC 4th Defense Battalion near Barakoma, Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands, date unknown	Men of Battery F, 70th Coast Artillery of the US Army manning a 37-mm anti-aircraft gun at Wickham Anchorage, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, 1943

New Zealand troops landing on Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands, circa mid- or late-1943	Vella Lavella of the Solomon Islands, seen from an American ship, circa 1943