Return to Naval Historical Center home page. Return to Online Library listing

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060

Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: USMC 68267

Bougainville Campaign, 1943-44


Transports unloading in Empress Augusta Bay, off the Bougainville beachhead, 20 November 1943.
Photographed by T/Sgt. J. Sarno, USMC, from on board a PT boat, one of whose twin .50 caliber machine gun mounts is in the foreground.
The LCVP just beyond is from USS President Jackson (APA-18).
A PT boat, two attack transports (APA) and a LST are in the distance.

U.S. Marine Corps Photograph.

Online Image: 107KB; 740 x 600 pixels

 

Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

If you want higher resolution reproductions than this digital image, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

Return to Naval Historical Center home page.

27 February 2002