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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 69114

Guadalcanal - Tulagi Operation, August 1942

Scene just after the Japanese torpedo plane attack on shipping between Guadalcanal and Tulagi, 8 August 1942.
USS George F. Elliott (AP-13) is afire in the left center. She had been hit by a crashing enemy aircraft. The other two smoke plumes mark the locations of planes that crashed into the water.

Collection of Admiral Richmond K. Turner, USN.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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3 October 2001