Photos Taken in British Western Pacific Territories

194 items in this album on 10 pages.


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 aircraft, New Georgia, 1943

Wrecked Japanese G4M 'Betty' bomber, Munda Airfield, New Georgia, 1943	B-24 Liberator bomber raiding the Japanese airfields at Cape Gloucester, New Britain in preparation of the American invasion, Oct 1943

TBF-1 Avenger at Munda airfield, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, showing a damaged wing from Japanese anti-aircraft fire, Oct 1943.	F4U-1 Corsair of Maj RG Owens USMC, Marine Squadron VMF-215 at the Munda Airstrip, New Georgia, Solomons, late 1943

F4U-1 Corsair of Marine Squadron VMF-223 at the Munda Airstrip, New Georgia, Solomons, 1943	F4U-1A Corsair of Marine Squadron VMF-212 at Barakoma Airfield, Vella Lavella, Solomons, Nov 1943

US troops boarding landing barges at Empress Augusta Bay, Bougainville, Nov 1943	LCVP landing craft circling off Cape Torokina, Bougainville, Solomon Islands while awaiting orders, 1 Nov 1943; note 20mm Oerlikon AA gun; photographed from aboard APA-13 USS American Legion

Men of the US 3rd Marine Regiment fighting just inland of Blue 3 Beach, Bougainville, Solomon Islands, 1 Nov 1943	Men of US 3rd Marine Division disembarking onto the invasion beach at Bougainville, Solomon Islands, Nov 1943

Elco 80-foot torpedo boat PT-167 with a through-and-through hole in the bow section made by a Japanese torpedo that did not explode, Solomon Islands, 5 Nov 1943. Note 37mm cannon and “Zebra” pattern paint scheme.	United States Navy ship LST-207, staffed by Coast Guard personnel, on Kukum Beach, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 26 Nov 1943.

Admiral William Halsey, Major General Robert Beightler, Major General Roy Geiger, and others studying a map at US 37th Division command post on Bougainville, Solomon Islands, Nov-Dec 1943	F4U-1 Corsair in Marine Fighting Squadron 214 (the “Black Sheep”) on the Marsden matting at Torokina airstrip, Bougainville, Solomons, Dec 1943.