Photo #: NH 100392
Action in Kula Gulf, 6 March 1943
USS Denver (CL-58) SG radarscope image, showing the situation
at time 0145, as the U.S. force retired from Kula Gulf after
shelling Vila and sinking the Japanese destroyers Murasame
and Minegumo.
Denver is the bright spot in the scope center, with other
the U.S. ships steaming to NNE ahead of her. Kolombangara Island
is the large white patch on the left left, with Vila at its southern
end. New Georgia is on the right. The spot above the main U.S.
column is probably USS Waller (DD-466), steaming to the
north.
Copied from a photograph in Denver's 9 March 1943 Action
Report, 1985
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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