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General Twining congratulates Pilots of U.S. Air Force who shot Japanese planes, in Guadalcanal Solomon Islands during WWII.

General Twining arrives to congratulate fighter Pilots of the U.S. Air Force, in Guadalcanal in Solomon Islands, during World War II. General Nathan Twining steps out of his jeep and walks towards a group of Air Force Pilots. He congratulates Captain John Mitchell and then speaks to Pilots of the 339th Fighter Squadron. General Twining and other Pilots stand in front of a P-38 fighter airplane and talk. Pilots who shot three Zero Fighters and three bombers of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service (IJNAS) over Ki hill Airfield near Munda Point. The three Pilots, Captain Thomas Lamphier, Jr.,, Lieutenant Busby Frank Holmes and Lieutenant Alex E Barber pose for a photograph. (These three would later participate in U.S. Operation Vengeance, on April 16, 1943, in which they engage a group of Japanese aircraft, including one carrying Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the architect of the Pearl Harbor attack. He would perish when they down the Mitsubishi G4M bomber carrying him.) Pilots leaving in a jeep. A Pilot stands on the wing of P-38 fighter, besides its canopy.

Date: 1944, April 6
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036188
Various general activities of the U.S. Air Force at Guadalcanal in Solomon Islands, during World War II.

Various general activities of the U.S. Air Force at Guadalcanal in Solomon Islands, during World War II. P-38 planes take off among palm trees and tents of the U.S. airmen. P-38 patrolling the sky as seen from a watch tower. A single engine plane flying among clouds in sky.

Date: 1944, April 6
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036197
Lieutenant EC Rusi and other airmen of U.S. Air Force talk at their base in Guadalcanal in Solomon Islands, during World War II.

Airmen of the U.S. Air Force at Guadalcanal in Solomon Islands, during World War II. Lieutenant EC Rusi talks with fellow officers and airmen near the tents and palms. Bearded and barefooted Lieutenant Rusi shares his experience. He shows burn wounds and scars on his legs.

Date: 1944, April 6
Duration: 1 min 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036198
Nurse in a hospital ward serves food to a wounded U.S. soldier in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II.

QM (Quartermaster) activities under U.S. Army Special Projects in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. Nurse in a hospital ward serves patient tray of fresh food and patient eats.

Date: 1944, November
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074685
U.S. soldiers and natives walk through cornstalks in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II.

QM (Quartermaster) activities under U.S. Army Special Projects in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. U.S. soldier picks up tomatoes from a vine. Soldiers and natives walk through cornstalks. Native picks cantaloupe from a field. Cantaloupe and watermelon being cut by a knife. Eggplants on a field. Dusting machine sprays crops with DDT.

Date: 1944, November
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074689
U.S. soldiers disembark from landing crafts and practice invasion of Philippines in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands.

U.S. troops practice invasion of Philippines in Guadalcanal,Solomon Islands and Naumea, New Caledonia during World War II. Landing crafts loaded with U.S. troops head for beach during pre-invasion practice. U.S. troops of 25th Infantry Division, 161st Regimental Combat Team come down cargo nets and load aboard LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel). LCVPs arrive at Guadalcanal beach and U.S. troops disembark. Soldiers march inland. Soldier digs foxhole. Tank moving on road. Soldiers carry stretchers. Troops disembark from LCVPs. Half track and troops unload from LCVP.

Date: 1944, December 21
Duration: 2 min 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074985