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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 92750

Vice Admiral Aubrey W. Fitch, USN,
Commander, Aircraft, South Pacific Force (right)

Boards a PBY-5A aircraft at Guadalcanal for a return flight to Espiritu Santo, circa early 1943.
Present to see him off are (from left):
Brigadier General Francis P. Mulcahy, USMC;
Rear Admiral Charles P. Mason, USN; and
Major General Alexander M. Patch, U.S. Army.
The original photograph was released for publication on 7 May 1943.

Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute Photograph Collection.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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23 May 2000