12-046 Garand Picture of the Day - Guadalcanal

[Mark in Rochester]

Guadalcanal
American infantrymen with equipment after a bloody battle for a 1,500-ft. peak euphemistically called the Grassy Knoll. Location: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands
Date taken: 1943
Photographer: Ralph Morse



Guadalcanal
Battle-stained Amer. infantrymen cleaning their weapons next to foxhole after a bloody battle for a 1,500-ft. peak euphemistically called the Grassy Knoll. Location: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands
Date taken: 1943
Photographer: Ralph Morse



Exhausted US Marines sprawl all over beaches waiting for the landing craft which will take them off the island following four months of fighting the Japanese. Location: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands
Date taken: December 1942
Photographer: Ralph Morse

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