344 Free Photos of Solomon Islands

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One of our planes wrecked by Jap bombs in raid on Henderson Field, Guadalcanal. September-December, 1942.
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SC 190526 - Lt. Thomas M. Ammons, Richmond, Va., straddles…
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Marines leaving Bougainville. The first large element to d…
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SC 334747 - The Japanese 75-mm gun emplacement on Blue Ridge which was used in their attack on Hill 700.
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Upon returning, the intelligence officer Lt. Harrison, checks off the names of the pilots. Guadalcanal. June, 1943.
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Marine Cpl William Coffron fires at Jap sniper from behind…
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SC 364351 - 1st Marine convoy enroute for invasion of Cape Gloucester, New Britain.
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Marine PFC Kenneth G. Crowley takes cover behind a fallen …
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Marine artillery battery firing on distant Japanese target…
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Pin-up girl influence is apparent on many of the Army's Liberator bombers in the pictures of scantily-clad girls on the sides.
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With his Browning Automatic Rifle ready for action, a Mari…
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Amphibious tractor armed with two .50 calibre machine guns and a 37mm gun. Guadalcanal .3 March, 1944.
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SC 364560 - Marines on patrol in jungle on 1st day on Cape Gloucester, New Britain.
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Aerial view of the Vella Lavella airfield, Solomon Islands, circa 1943-1944 (80-G-K-1457)
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A Marine machine gun nest on Bougainville, near Hill 600.
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SC 190528 - WO Bernard C. Simons, Fargo, ND., left, and Sg…
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Construction of the prefabricated steel storage warehouse (by members of the 34th Construction Bn.) at Halavo Seaplane - NARA - 520629
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SC 166667 - On alighting from a transport plane, soldiers adjust clothing and equipment. 15 December, 1942.
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Members of 1st Btn., 3rd Marines, coming out of the jungle…
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Aerial view of the Barakoma airfield, Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands, circa in 1943-1944 (80-G-K-1460)
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SC 190524 - Americal Div. sniper platform on banyan tree. …
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SC 190529 - Per Rabe, a Swede, who came to the U.S. to com…
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Marine 81mm mortar team fires in support of the infantry o…
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SC 190523 - Higgins boats bringing personnel of the 40th I…
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Machine gun team of the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion in a f…
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Edward A. Salisbury and his motion picture cameraman shooting a group of war-painted Choiseul Island (Solomon Islands) natives holding spears and knives LCCN2006682509
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Personnel of VB104 & VB106 gather around Chief Yeoman Willis to receive their mail on Munda, New Georgia Island. - NARA - 520909
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SC 171589 - A curious soldier watches a New Guinea native in the art of coconut drinking. Simemi, New Guinea. 25 December, 1942.
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SC 166666 - On alighting from a transport plane, soldiers adjust clothing and equipment. 15 December, 1942.
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SC 364572 - Members of the 49th CA, (Colored) firing 155mm howitzer at night on Bougainville.
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SC 166662 - Native Police boy draws a map on the ground showing the position of enemy forces.
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SC 171698 - First Island Command, New Caledonia. Injured from Solomon Islands, soldiers of the U.S. Army, are loaded into ambulance peeps as they are hurried to hospitals in New Caledonia.
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SC 335381 - Servicemen on Russell Islands getting information from Lt. John W. M. Rothney, of Wisc., about the Education Workshop and War Information Center set up on the island by the Morale Services.
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SC 334754 - An American soldier examines an abandoned Japanese machine gun position in a cave 370 yards up Jaba Creek on Bougainville.
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Just before the take-off, Maj. Gregory J. Weissenberg briefs his men, describing the mission. Guadalcanal. June, 1943.
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SC 334888 - Members of the 140th F.A. Bn., 37th Div. on Bougainville, from Cleveland, Ohio.
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SC 364612 - Tommy gunner from G. Co., 148th Inf., firing at Japs from pillbox on Bougainville.
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USS Indiana (BB-58) - 80-G-35773
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SC 334887 - Members of Hq Btry., 6th F.A., who represent the South on Bougainville in this outfit.
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SC 166665 - On alighting from a transport plane, soldiers adjust clothing and equipment. 15 December, 1942.
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SC 364610 - A pillbox situated on the perimeter of Co. "E", 145th Inf., area, Bougainville.
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SC 364419 - Capt. John F. O'Hanlon of Omaha, Neb., (674th AAA Machine Gun Btry. at Fort Moresby, New Guinea.)
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Lt. Col. John E. Weber, commanding officer of a Marine bat…
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Marine mortar team operating a few hundred yards behind th…
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SC 190531 - Cannon Company of the 164th Regt., Americal Di…
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SC 190530 - American plane leaving after bombing Japanese …
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Carney Airfield, Solomon Islands, Red Cross girl. August 1944
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SC 166661 - A native boy draws a map on the ground showing the position of the enemy. 15 November, 1942.
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SC 166707 - Japanese breastwork taken over by soldiers upon the ousting of the enemy from the region. 21 December, 1942.
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SC 166663 - A portrait of an infantry soldier - Kane, Kansas, beside a transport plane in New Guinea. 15 December, 1942.
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SC 364575 - Crew of No. 1 gun load piece (105mm howitzer) to fire on enemy positions beyond the ridge in the distance.
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SC 334742 - Pvt. R. Dennis, 182nd Infantry, Americal Division, stands rear guard duty on Hill 260.
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127-N-71319 - Bougainville. Pfc. H.J. Finley and war dog P…
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Marine PFC George C. Miller, of 458 Ocean Ave., Jersey Cit…
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SC 184772 - Bomb damage to LCI inflicted during landing operations in Lae, New Guinea. 5 September, 1943.
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SC 170649 - This is the plane, the men, and the equipment which took part in the experimental flight to move field artillery by air.
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Cpl. Henry Blake Jr., (left) and PFC George H. Kirk, Navaj…
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SC 171693 - First Island Command, New Caledonia. Checking names of Army casualties just returned from the Solomon Islands is Pfc. George R. Sister of Irwin, Penn. 23 January, 1943.
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SC 184773-B - Battle-hardened members of a U.S. Army Special Weapons unit take time out after the first excitement of landing on landing on Bougainville Island in the South Pacific to make a batch of fudge.
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SC 171692 - First Island Command, New Caledonia. Casualty from the Solomon Islands talk cheerfully with sailor as he is brought in by Higgins Boat to the docks at Noumea, New Caledonia, where he will be placed in a hospital.
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SC 196151 - En route to Hill 165, members of 93rd Div. struggle through some clinging mud along the East-West trail on an island in the South Pacific.
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SC 334743 - Firing at the enemy with concentrated rifle, BAR and grenade fire. Soldier at right center has just tossed a grenade.
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Infantryman knocking door of a hut open with his rifle in native village of [censored], Dutch New Guinea. 1 August, 1944.
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SC 170655 - .30 caliber machine gun emplacement and crew used by a battalion for protection, somewhere in New Guinea.
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SC 364495 - A 50. cal. water-cooled machine gun and crew at the old jetty on Orange Beach, Arawe, New Britain.
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SC 364608 - Heavy 81mm mortar firing into Jap positions across the Tsinamutu River, near Kuraio Mission, Bougainville. 24 February, 1944.
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USS Selfridge (DD-357) in the Solomon Islands, 5 August 1943 (80-G-266036)
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SC 171695 - First Island Command, New Caledonia. Wounded waiting to be transferred to hospitals, munch candy bars on the docks after being unloaded from Higgins Boats following their trip from the Solomon Islands.
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SC 190555-S - In their slit trench which is half filled wi…
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SC 190556-S - Sgt. Sam Marinkovich, Anaconda, Mont., Sgt. …
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SC 329679 - Soldiers of the 24th Infantry in New Georgia, man a 37mm gun used for beach against the enemy. 15 October, 1943.
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SC 184760 - Major A. W. Beeman, QMC and Capt. M. R. Foster, S.C., inspecting wrecked Japanese landing barge on beach road in New Guinea.
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SC 364494 - Heavy machine gun crew set up quickly on the beach near Aitape, New Guinea.
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SC 334994 - Gen. J. Lawton Collins, CG of the 25th Division, scans treetops over which mortar fire must pass.
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SC 335383 - Some of the men of the 120th F.A. which gave valuable support to the 112th Cavalry at Aitape, New Guinea.
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SC 364415 - Papuan natives furnish Christmas entertainment for Yanks and Aussies by performing one of their native dances at Fort Moresby, New Guinea. 25 December, 1943.
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Wounded Marines from Bougainville fighting are unloaded fr…
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Lieutenant Junior Grade Ira C. Kepford, 26 March 1944
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SC 190525 - Mortar crew of 164th Inf. Regt., Americal Div.…
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SC 184829 - A wounded American soldier is lifted aboard a transport plane for a flying trip to to a hospital.
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SC 364611 - Soldiers from Co. A, 145th Inf., 37th Div., in position on a hillside where they had the Japs surrounded.
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SC 190565-S - S/Sgt Floyd A. Ott, Jerone, Idaho, of 41st D…
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SC 184828 - Troops of the 163rd Infantry Regiment of the 41st Divsion are shown aboard a transport plane somewhere in New Guinea. 10 July, 1943.
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USS Pringle (DD-477) in Purvis Bay, in August 1943 (80-G-56826)
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SC 334885 - Men of B Btry., 163rd AAA Bn., grouped around the barrel of their 90mm AA gun named "Tojo Special".
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SC 184767 - Capt. R. M. Martin of Saint Mary's, Idaho; Col. William Jackson of Portland, Oregon; at gun position in New Guinea.
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SC 364605 - A 40mm gun of the 251st CA (AA), 14th Corps, on Bougainville. In background can be seen Mt Bagana, 6560 feet, an active volcano.
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SC 364353 - 1st wave of 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division invasion forces load into landing craft from U.S. Destroyer U.S.S. Bush. Momote Bay, Manus Island, Admiralty Group.
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SC 364577 - 40mm gun position 199th AAA and AW Bn., Btry. C, Sec 4, located on the beach near the Torokina River, Bougainville.
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SC 166664 - Evacuation of wounded is sped up by the use of transport planes regularly flying between the advance clearing stations.
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SC 170689 - Men unloading foodstuffs from row boat preparatory to carrying it thru jungle path, somewhere in New Guinea. November 13, 1942.
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SC 184757 - 41st Div. fire their 105mm gun from emplacement under a native hut in New Guinea, on Jap frontlines.
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SC 171588 - At the fighting front two soldiers string wire for communications between the 127th Regiment Command Post and the 5th Portable Hospital of the 32nd Division.
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SC 166668 - A hospital unit treks along the front after landing from transport plane in New Guinea. 15 December, 1942.
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B-17F over Bougainville Nov 1942
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Sailors of ARU-145 (Aircraft Repair Unit), Guadalcanal, during their free time. Sack time a favorite past time. - NARA - 520658
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Enlisted men serving on Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides...placing 6-inch shells in magazines at the Naval Ammunition - NARA - 520631
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SC 334995 - Capt. Cecil Bayless, CO of M Company mortar, 3rd Battalion, 27th Infantry, left, and Gen. J. Lawton Collins, CG of the 25th Division...
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SC 364497 - Pvt. Jack Hunting, Texarkana, Texas, and Pfc. Alfred Livingston, of Company "D", 128th Infantry Regiment, at their 81mm mortar position on the front line.
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SC 171586 - Telephone operator makes use of a captured Japanese bunker for protection against enemy fire, at triangle point, while maintaining communications with the advanced forces.
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