Photos Taken in British Western Pacific Territories

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H6K aircraft of Japanese Navy Yokohama Kokutai, Solomon Islands, 1942	H8K1 aircraft aboard seaplane tender Akitsushima, Shortland Island, Solomon Islands, 1942

Lunga Point Airfield while under construction, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Jul 1942	Lunga Point Airfield/Henderson Field, seen from USS Saratoga aircraft, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Aug 1942

Major General Alexander Vandegrift at a field desk on Guadalcanal, circa Aug-Dec 1942	United States Marine preparing to throw a Mark II “pineapple” grenade on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 1942. Note Browning Automatic Rifle at left.

Japanese facilities afire, Tanambogo Island, east of Tulagi, Solomon Islands, 7 Aug 1942	M2A4 Stuart tank being hoisted from USS Alchiba into a LCM(2) landing craft, off Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 7 Aug 1942

Floating Japanese G4M1 bomber off Tulagi, Solomon Islands, 8 Aug 1942 as seen from the destroyer USS Ellet. The bomber was shot down during an aerial torpedo attack on the Allied shipping off Tulagi. Photo 1 of 2	Floating Japanese G4M1 bomber off Tulagi, Solomon Islands, 8 Aug 1942 as seen from the destroyer USS Ellet. The bomber was shot down during an aerial torpedo attack on the Allied shipping off Tulagi. Photo 2 of 2

US Marine Corps LVT(1) amphibian tractors moving toward Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 7-9 Aug 1942; note USS President Hayes in background	USS President Jackson (foreground) and HMAS Australia (background) maneuvering between Tulagi and Guadalcanal, 8 Aug 1942; photograph taken by personnel aboard USS Ellet

Quincy illuminated by Japanese searchlights during Battle of Savo Island, 9 Aug 1942	American surveying Lunga Point Airfield, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Aug 1942

Men of US 2nd Marine Division wading through shallow water, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Aug 1942	US 1st Marine Division staff at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Aug 1942

US Marine Colonel Frank Goettge with captured Japanese currency, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Aug 1942	American photograph of a captured Japanese ammunition box with ammunition strips for the Type 92 machine gun, Guadalcanal, 1942.

Bombs being brought to a TBF Avenger of United States Navy Torpedo Squadron VT-11 flying from Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, 1942. Note the pierced steel Marsden matting.	Captured Japanese Type 92 Battalion Gun on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, mid-1942