Paintings and illustrations of the Guadalcanal Campaign

 

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Still Life Guadalcanal, by Aaron Bohrod
Japanese bones, gas masks, and paraphenalia mingle with bullet-riddled American helmets around tree-root dug-outs. Guadalcanal was truly an island of death, and both sides lost many a man trying to win the disease-filled jungles.
(info and text from the "Life's Picture History of World War II")

 

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USS Enterprise at the naval Battle of Santa Cruz
The American aircraft carrier Enterprise (center) took three hits forward, but new 40mm antiaircraft (as at left) smothered most of her attackers.
(info and text from the "Life's Picture History of World War II")

 

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USS South Dakota at the naval Battle of Santa Cruz
The new battleship South Dakota drew first enemy blood at Santa Cruz. Her flaming guns clawed down 2 Japanese aircraft from the sky.
(info and text from the "Life's Picture History of World War II")

 

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USS Hornet at the naval Battle of Santa Cruz
Forty-nine Japanese aircraft dived through the slather of flak from her escort and killed the carrier Hornet (center, burning) with three torpedoes, six bombs, and two suicide crashes on her flight deck.
(info and text from the "Life's Picture History of World War II")

 

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USS Wasp explodes
The American aircraft carrier Wasp blew up in the waters south of Guadalcanal a half-hour after taking three torpedoes from a Japanese submarine.
(info and text from the "Life's Picture History of World War II")

 

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