See my "Tribute to the Cactus Air Force" website for photos relating to the air war over Guadalcanal.
Here are additional air war photos that may or may not be on the above site:
Betty bombers attack the U.S. invasion fleet
Japanese Navy Type 1 land attack planes (later nicknamed "Betty") fly low
through anti-aircraft gunfire during a torpedo attack on U.S. Navy ships maneuvering
between Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the morning of 8 August 1942. (This photo has been
cropped for file size reasons.)
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National
Archives.
(info and text from the Naval Historical Center website)
A Japanese Betty bomber makes an attack run on one of
our warships.
(Note: the middle third of this photo was removed for size and
space considerations.)
(info and text from United States Destroyer Operations in World War II by Theodore
Roscoe, 1953 edition)
Henderson Field, Guadalcanal
Photographed from a USS Saratoga plane in the latter part of August 1942, after
U.S. aircraft had begun to use the airfield. The view looks about northwest, with the
Lunga River running across the upper portion of the image. Iron Bottom Sound is just out
of view at the top. Several planes are parked to the left, and numerous bomb and shell
craters are visible.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National
Archives.
(info and text from the Naval Historical Center website)
Wreckage of a SBD scout-bomber, still burning after it
was destroyed by a Japanese attack on Henderson Field.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National
Archives.
(info and text from the Naval Historical Center website)
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