GUADALCANAL WW2 PHOTOS
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247th Field Artillery,Americal Division
253 Squadron
destroyed SBD near Henderson Field
Fighter strip 2
Fighter strip 2 photo 2
Fighter strip 2 photo 3
Gavutu island April 1942
General Vandergrift
Gifu 1
Gifu 2

Camp at Kokumbona
Henderson 1942
Henderson Sept 1942
Henderson 1943
Henderson 1943 photo 2
Airfield construction
Henderson B17s
Henderson B17s take off
Transport Yamazuki Maru 1944
New Zealanders at Kokumbona 1943

Marines at chow - Wellington NZ
Marines at Hotel Cecil Wellington NZ
Marines at Paekakiriki Camp NZ
Matanikau river aerial view
Matanikau sandbar
Matanikau sandbar tank hulls
Matanikau tank hull
Marines at Wellington docks
Mt Austen
Oriental Bay Wellington NZ

Paekakariki Camp
The Pagoda side view
The Pagoda front view
Pagoda Hill flagpole
1943 Henderson tower being built
crashed Wildcat
crashed Zero 1
crashed Zero 2
Dauntless dive bomber
Dauntless over Henderson

Douglas Munro - Medal of Honour
Aerial of Fighter #2 strip
Dauntless and original 1942 tower
Wildcat and tower
Henderson Field in 1944
Hill 83 action September 27th 1942
Aerial of Ilu River
original 1942 Henderson control tower
The Pagoda and radio tunnel entrance
Point Cruz 1942

Dauntless landing on Henderson Field
Thin Red Line battle area
Transport Asumasan Maru under attack
Transport Hirokawa Maru 1944
on board Kinugawa Maru 1944
Transport Kinugawa Maru 1944 1
Transport Kinugawa Maru 1944 2
Transport Kinugawa Maru 1944 3
Transport Kinugawa Maru
(photo courtesy M. Peters)
Transport Kyusyu Maru 1944
Transport Yamatsuki Maru 1944

Transports under air attack 1942
Squadron VMF 212 emblem
Bathing in the Lunga
Bill Coggin 8.8.42 (hands behind head)
Cemetary
Canal pilots
Capt. Davis - Thin Red Line MOH
Captured Jap field gun - Ilu River sandbar
US Army troops on Hill 43 (Seahorse)
Henderson 1942-43 runway

Henderson pilots near the Pagoda
SBD dive bombers
Marines on Guadalcanal
Marines on leave in Melbourne












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