U.S. troops in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. Repair area shows USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) crew removing propeller from P-38 Lightening fighter plane with assistance of a mobile crane. Graveyard where wrecked planes are stripped, shows many damaged parts. Crew removes motor from wrecked P-40 Warhawk fighter plane with the help of a mobile crane. Engine hangs from a crane hook. A P-39 that has been stripped for usable parts after a shelling has damaged it. A damaged P-38. A mechanic tinkers with tail surface of P-40 which was machine gunned and landed with control wires shot up.
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.
Damage caused in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. Men try to loosen a U.S. army jeep stuck in mud. Prow of wrecked Japanese ship Kyusyu Maru sticks up from water. Beached Japanese freighter in the background. Abandoned Japanese field piece hidden in shrubs. A wrecked Japanese truck. Palm trees in an area. Tree tops showing destruction. U.S. soldier examines a Japanese antiaircraft gun on a beach.
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.
U.S. Army Air Forces operations at "Fighter Two" strip, on Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, in World War 2. P-38 comes in to land, with left engine feathered. Airmen take temporary refuge under wing of 339th Fighter Squadron's P-38G-13 aircraft, #127 "Fran III," during tropical rainstorm. Mechanic in rain gear, works on P-38 named,"Little Jo"!. More P-38s parked on water-soaked ramp. A P-38 taking off, and another landing, and taxiing to the ramp. P-40F Warhawk, number 256, of the 44th Fighter Squadron (painted white band behind cockpit) lands, followed by another P-40.
Wreckage of U.S. airplanes in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War 2. Opening shots show the remains of a C-47 transport airplane, followed by views of wrecked USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) P-38 Lightning aircraft, on a field. Propellers of P-38. U.S. Airmen examine a wrecked P-38. Two crewmen work on a P-38.
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