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[Anti-Aircraft Battery]

Description: Photograph of anti-aircraft batteries of the United States task force in the battle of the Santa Cruz. Two ships are in the distance with smoke above them.
Date: October 26, 1942
Creator: Smith, Loran F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

The Battle of the Solomons.

Description: Lyrical quatrain poem that rhymes on the 2nd and 4th line of each stanza on the subject of the Battle of the Solomons from the American's perspective.
Date: August 7, 1942
Item Type: Refine your search to only Poem
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Soldier with a Bird]

Description: Photograph of a U.S. servicemen pointing towards a bird in a tree. The man is wearing shorts and a white t-shirt and is looking up towards the branch with the bird.
Date: 1942~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Drinking and Smoking]

Description: Photograph of soldiers sitting around a table drinking and smoking cigars together. The table in front of them is covered in bottles, glasses, and newspapers.
Date: 1942~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Soldier with a Skull]

Description: Photograph of a soldier leaning over a roof with a skull sitting next to the man's hand. The man is wearing a white t-shirt and a bracelet on both of his arms.
Date: 1942~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Passing Out Cigars]

Description: Photograph of a man passing out cigars to a group of U.S. Servicemen. The man is crouched in front of the group and is holding out a box of La Fendrich cigars. The group are leaning forward in an attempt to grab a cigar from the box.
Date: 1942~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Blowing Balloons]

Description: Photograph of a soldier blowing a balloon. Another soldier is sat in front of the ballon with a magazine in his lap and laughing at the other man.
Date: 1942~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Havoc on Tanambogo Island]

Description: Photograph of Tanambogo Island after a barrage from Pacific ships and planes that proceeded landing operations by U.S. Marines. A smoke pillar can be seen rising from the island. Gavutu and Florida Island can be seen in the background.
Date: 1942-08~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Letters Regarding the Invasion of Guadalcanal, 1942]

Description: Letter titled "Guadalcanal Tourist Bureau" painting a humorous picture of Guadalcanal to allied sailors preparing their invasion in the style of a tourism promotion. Letter titled "Guadalcanal Invasion" providing a sailor's personal account of the initial allied invasion of Guadalcanal on August 7, 1942, experiencing it both from the bridge of his ship and on the beach of Tulagi.
Date: 1942~
Creator: Turner, Richmond Kelly
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Location: -9.101583 160.147069
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Soldier Washing His Clothes]

Description: Photograph of an unidentified soldier washing his clothes on the hood of a vehicle. The man is nude and scrubbing a piece of clothing with a brush and soap, his boots and another piece of clothing sit on the hood in front of him. To his right another man stands by the passenger side door. There are several men bathing in the water directly behind where the man is washing his clothes. The front of the vehicle reads "U.S.A. 20148866".
Date: 1942~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Soldiers Chow Down in Mess Tent, #1]

Description: Photograph of soldiers in white t-shirts gathered around a table in the Mess tent. The table has several small tins surrounding a larger serving dish the soldiers pick at. To the left is a desk and a few shelves on the wall. To the right is an icebox, and some shelves along the back the wall. Across the ceiling is a support beam with a single lightbulb and decorated with streamers draped over it.
Date: 1942~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Soldiers Chow Down in Mess Tent, #2]

Description: Photograph of soldiers in white t-shirts or button ups gathered around a table in the Mess tent. Most of the men are looking up and smiling for the camera. The table in front of them has several small tins surrounding a larger serving dish one of the soldiers picks at. Across the ceiling is a support beam with a single lightbulb and decorated with streamers draped over it.
Date: 1942~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Ralph Sprinkle and Another Man in Barracks]

Description: Photograph of Ralph Sprinkle and another U.S. serviceman reading in the barracks. Ralph Sprinkle sits in a chair on the left wearing a long-sleeved collared shirt and glasses while reading a letter. To his right is a drawer with a fold down table stacked with books and other small items. Sitting on the bed to the right is an unidentified man in the same collared uniform shirt, glasses, pants and lace-up boots. He is reading a book.
Date: 1942~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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