U.S. airmen in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. Airmen help a U.S. pilot get out of a crashed U.S. Navy F4F Wildcat fighter. Airmen walk around the wrecked plane.
Wreckage in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. Boats beached. Wrecked Japanese freighter Kinugawa Maru at beach. Name 'Tokyo' on a lifeboat. U.S. soldiers on captured Japanese truck with signs 'Tojo's Hearse'. Soldiers carry rifles.
Decoration ceremony on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. Small unit stands in formation in front of a P-40 aircraft of the 44th Fighter Squadron on the Fighter 2 airstrip. U.S. officer reads citation. Commander of U.S. 25th Infantry Division, Major General Joseph Lawton Collins, shakes hand of 2Lt Jack Bade after awarding him an Air Medal. Several P-40s of 13th Air Force,seen nearby, with white stripes painted on them.
A grave on the Solomon island, Melanesia. Chaplains arrive near the grave. A tent near the grave. The chaplains approach the stone marker. They look at the grave.
A United States Army Air Forces B-17E Flying Fortress taken out from a ditch in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. The Flying Fortress named 'Galloping Gus' stuck in the ditch while taking off. Men working near the airplane to take it out. They try to lower the wheels of the airplane on a trailer bed. A bridge is made from steel mats. The airplane is towed out of the ditch.
A gunnery training for U.S. gunners in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. A man in the model of a turret. Other men watching the training. The gunners are trained with a powerful stream of water. A revolving scale model of a Japanese aircraft. A gunner practicing.
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