F6F-3 Hellcat of Navy Fighting Squadron 33 after dropping into a bomb crater at the Barakoma airstrip, Vella Lavella, Solomons, late 1943. Fighting 33 was one of the few land based fighter squadrons, a role later taken up by Marine squadrons.

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Caption     F6F-3 Hellcat of Navy Fighting Squadron 33 after dropping into a bomb crater at the Barakoma airstrip, Vella Lavella, Solomons, late 1943. Fighting 33 was one of the few land based fighter squadrons, a role later taken up by Marine squadrons. ww2dbase
WW2-Era Location Name Vella Lavella, British Western Pacific Territories
Date  1943
Photographer    Unknown
 
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Source    ww2dbaseUnited States Navy
 
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Added By David Stubblebine
Photo Size 1,600 x 1,090 pixels



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WW2-Era Location Name:
Vella Lavella, British Western Pacific Territories

Latitude-Longitude:
-7.9117, 156.7058

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