Photos Taken in New Georgia | World War II Database

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B-25 Mitchell bombers of the 42nd Bomb Group on the ramp at Munda, New Georgia, Solomons, 1943. Note B-24 Liberator nose turrets at left.	Aerial view of the Munda Point Airfield in New Georgia in the Solomon Islands, mid-1943	Aerial view of the Segi Point Airfield at the southeastern tip of New Georgia in the Solomon Islands; the airfield was constructed by US Navy 47th Construction Battalion in mid-1943	Ambulance and medical personnel, New Georgia, 1943

F4U-1 Corsair of Marine Squadron VMF-215 at the Munda Airstrip, New Georgia, Solomons, 1943	Overturned F4U-1 Corsair of Marine Squadron VMF-215 at the Munda Airstrip, New Georgia, Solomons, 1943	US Army Private Lloyd Culuck of A Company, 1st Battalion, US 172nd Infantry Regiment eating a can of Ration B, using the lid as spoon while wearing 12-day-old dirty clothes, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, Jul 1943	US Marines wading across a stream, New Georgia, 1943

Destroyed Japanese field gun, New Georgia, 1943	US construction troops on New Georgia, 1943	US Marine supply dump, New Georgia, 1943	US Marines in New Georgia, 1943

US Marines with field gun, New Georgia, 1943	US Marines, New Georgia, 1943	US Marines, New Georgia, 1943	2Lt Harry S Huidekoper, USMCR of VMF-213 poses aboard the hulk of F4U-1 Corsair “George,” Munda Airstrip, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, Sept 1943. This aircraft previously flew with VMF-122.

American field hospital, New Georgia, 1943	Barren landscape, New Georgia, 1943	Marine TBM-1C Avengers lined up along the airstrip at Munda, New Georgia, Solomon Islands in late 1943. Note open bomb bays, improvised wheel chocks, flame dampener on the exhaust port of the nearest plane, and different versions of the National Insignia	Navy TBF-1 Avengers at the Munda Airstrip, New Georgia, Solomons, Sep 1943. Note the crews are in the process of applying the newly updated National Insignia with white bars and a blue border.