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U.S. soldiers at a bivouac area in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II.

U.S. troops in Guadalcanal,Solomon Islands during World War II. U.S. soldiers around pup tents set up in bivouac area. A soldiers shaves before small mirror tacked to tree trunk. Mascot cockatoo sits above soldier. Two soldiers visit a cemetery on island. Crosses in cemetery.

Location: Guadalcanal Solomon Islands
Date: 1944, December 21
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074987
Bob Hope, Frances Langford and Patty Thomas in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II.

American entertainers of the USO in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. Singer Frances Langford and an airman stand on the wing of a United States Army Air Force P-38 Lightning aircraft. They sit down on the wing. The airman helps Langford to get off the aircraft. Dancer Patty Thomas walks away from an aircraft followed by U.S. servicemen. The soldiers and sailors around Langford and Thomas. Langford signs short snorter dollar bills. The P-38 Lightning aircraft in the background. Bob Hope, Langford, Patty Thomas, Jerry Colonna and Tony Romano come out of a mess hall.

Location: Guadalcanal Solomon Islands
Date: 1944, August 7
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675057657
Frances Langford and Tony Romano perform in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II.

American entertainers in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. Wounded soldiers among the audience. The audience seated in an outdoor theater. Singer Frances Langford sings and Tony Romano plays a guitar. Nurses and soldiers among the audience. Tony Romano and other comedians entertain the audience. They applaud. Bob Hope and others leave the stage.

Location: Guadalcanal Solomon Islands
Date: 1944, August 7
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675057658
Frances Langford and Patty Thomas sign autographs for soldiers in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II.

American entertainers from the USO in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. Singer Frances Langford and dancer Patty Thomas sign autographs for U.S. soldiers. Comedians Bob Hope, Jerry Colonna and Tony Romano on a beach. They smoke cigars. Hope, Colonna, Romano and Dean seated on the beach. Langford and Thomas wave. Hope, Colonna and Romano seated on the beach. Male entertainers walk on the beach.

Location: Guadalcanal Solomon Islands
Date: 1944, August 7
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675057659
General Twining congratulates pilots of the 339th Fighter Squadron, on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during WWII

Major General Nathan F. Twining, Commanding General, 13th Air Force. arrives to congratulate fighter Pilots of the U.S. Army Air Forces, at Henderson Field, on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, during World War 2. (The 339th had successfully accomplished a highest priority mission, shooting down Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's airplane on April 18, 1943.) Major General Twining, wearing a pith helmet, steps out of his jeep and walks towards a group of 339th Squadron Pilots. He examines the nose wheel of a P-38, as a group of pilots stand around him. General Twining converses for a while with Major John W. Mitchell, Commander, 339th Fighter Squadron, who led the mission to down Admiral Yamamoto's airplane. Later, members of the 339th Squadron are photographed in conversations with one another.

Location: Guadalcanal Solomon Islands
Date: 1944, April 6
Duration: 3 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036187
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.

Location: Guadalcanal Solomon Islands
Date: 1944, April 6
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036188
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