Schlacht um Guadalcanal

1st Marine Corps Cemetery

1st Marine Corps Cemetery

1st Marine Corps Cemetery

Map of Solomon Islands, showing major towns.

127-GW-893-108570: Guadalcanal Campaign, August 1942-January 1943. A grave in U.S. military cemetery No.1 at Guadalcanal marked by a shell. Photographed December 1942. U.S. Marine Corps Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/09/13).

127-GW-893-128557: Guadalcanal Campaign, August 1942-January 1943. “Here Rest Our Honored Dead” who fell in the struggle for Guadalcanal. The lovely cemetery at Lunga Point, where Army, Marine, and Navy men lie together, has been landscaped and made uniform, and arrangements have been made for its perpetual care. Photographed by Turk, 1945. U.S. Marine Corps Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/09/13).

127-GW-893-53458: Guadalcanal Campaign, August 1942-January 1943The grave of Captain Rex M. Heap in the Marine cemetery on Guadalcanal showing the markers erected by his comrades and the men of his command. Photographed by J.F. Leopold, 2nd Marine Division, February 20, 1943. U.S. Marine Corps Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/09/13).

127-GW-893-60153: Guadalcanal Campaign, August 1942-January 1943. A Grave on Guadalcanal. A marker indicates the grave of Private First Class Anthony L. Almeida, a Marine who fell at Guadalcanal. Photographed by Carroll, September 1943. U.S. Marine Corps Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/09/13).

127-GW-893-97903: Guadalcanal Campaign, August 1942-January 1943. “And these are the dead, who died so that all men might be free.” Behind the two stars of David are the graves, left to right, of an unidentified sailor, soldier and a Marine. The Memorial Chapel is in the background. U.S. Marine Corps Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/09/13).

1st Marine Corps Cemetery

1st Marine Corps Cemetery

1st Marine Corps Cemetery

127-GW-895-50988: Guadalcanal Campaign, August 1942-January 1943. Sniper Goes To Roost. Garbed in captured Japanese sniper’s outfit, a U.S. Marine on Guadalcanal Island proves that the Japanese are not the only fighter who can “shimmy” up a coconut tree, secrete themselves in the lush foliage and hammer away at unsuspecting troops. Here he is giving them a dose of their own medicine. Photographed December 1942. 54U.S. Marine Corps Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/09/13).

127-GW-895-54883: Guadalcanal Campaign, August 1942-January 1943. This huge crater was caused by a 100 pound bomb the Japanese dropped on Guadalcanal. The vastness of the crater can be seen by comparing it with the Marine siting at the bottom, and other standing on the edge at right foreground of the photo. Photographed March 23, 1943. U.S. Marine Corps Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/09/13).

127-GW-895-80377: Guadalcanal Campaign, August 1942-January 1943. Advancing inland observing any enemy activity. Photographed by Private First Class W.H. Hall, March 10, 1944. U.S. Marine Corps Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/09/13).

127-GW-902-1: Guadalcanal Campaign, August 1942-January 1943. Marine Model. Typical Guadalcanal moving picture screen and stage in one of the Marine camps. Sign warns the audience to keep collars buttoned, sleeves rolled down, and trousers tucked in shoes, to prevent malarial mosquito bites. Photographed by Altfather, March 27, 1944. U.S. Marine Corps Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/09/13).

127-GW-902-111833: Guadalcanal Campaign, August 1942-January 1943. Marine Model. Somewhere in the South Pacific. No match shortage here! Private James F. Hartley, of Sixth Marine Division, supplies all the cigarette lights his buddies might want. With fire-eating his hobby, Private Hartley, inhales a flame from a torch then provides the light as shown here. Photographed by Private First Class Gregorka, February 6, 1945. U.S. Marine Corps Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/09/13).

127-GW-913-54394: Mechanized Unit in War on Malaria. All-purpose “peep” has another use here, carrying a power spray to fight mosquitoes on Guadalcanal. This device is used to spray insecticides and oil on streams and pools of water where the larvae of malaria transmitting mosquitos is found. Newly developed insecticides have greatly aided malaria control in the Solomon, April 1943. U.S. Marine Corps Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/09/13).

1st Marine Corps Cemetery

1st Marine Corps Cemetery

1st Marine Corps Cemetery

1st Marine Corps Cemetery

80-G-13491: Guadalcanal Campaign, August 9, 1942. Task Force 16 leaves Tulagi Island on August 10, 1942, after the battle. Shown: Flag Plot Officers after the battle. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/08/09).

80-G-17064: Guadalcanal Campaign, August 1942-February 1943. U.S. Marines at the Guadalcanal battlefront keep up with the news at home. Here some Marines are checking position on the map. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2017/11/22).

80-G-17075: Guadalcanal Campaign, August 1942-February 1943. Japanese soldiers killed in Battle of Raider’s Ridge, September 13-14, 1942. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2017/11/22).

Engine of a Japanese plane that had been shot down over Guadalcanal