Photos Taken in British Western Pacific Territories

267 items in this album on 14 pages.


Barren landscape, New Georgia, 1943	Marine TBM-1C Avengers lined up along the airstrip at Munda, New Georgia, Solomon Islands in late 1943. Note open bomb bays, improvised wheel chocks, flame dampener on the exhaust port of the nearest plane, and different versions of the National Insignia

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.

TBF-1 Avengers on the coral ramp at Munda airfield, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, late 1943.	TBF-1 Avengers on the coral ramp at Munda airfield, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, late 1943.

TBF-1 Avengers on the coral ramp at Munda airfield, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, late 1943.	Two Japanese soldiers captured at Ilangana Peninsula east of Munda, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, mid-1943

US Marine, New Georgia, 1943	US Marines on New Georgia, mid-1943; note wrecked Ki-45 aircraft

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, New Georgia, 1943

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